Restaino’s Reckoning: How One Man Stalled a City’s Comeback - The Niagara Reporter

Restaino’s Reckoning: How One Man Stalled a City’s Comeback - The Niagara Reporter

Niagara Falls, New York, population: 48,000 and falling. The name is still big. The Light That Was Niagara Niagara Falls was not merely a city. In its prime, the air itself had a kind of glamour. It was the kind of place where men wore hats to dinner. Where bellboys ran down hallways with telegrams and girls giggled in long coats by the observation deck. There were lights in every window, humming with the promise of something earned. People came…