Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center

Niagara Falls
The new station under construction in July 2016.
Location	825 Depot Ave West, Niagara Falls, New York United States
Coordinates	43°06′35″N 79°03′19″W / 43.10972°N 79.05528°W / 43.10972; -79.05528Coordinates: 43°06′35″N 79°03′19″W / 43.10972°N 79.05528°W / 43.10972; -79.05528
Owned by	City of Niagara Falls
Line(s)	Empire Corridor (Niagara Subdivision)
Platforms	1 side platform
Tracks	2
Bus operators	Route 50 Discover Niagara
Construction
Parking	Free
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak code: NFL
History
Opened	December 6, 2016
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	29,647  6.9%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Terminus Empire Service Buffalo – Exchange Street toward New York–Penn or New York–Grand Central Niagara Falls, ON toward Toronto Maple Leaf Buffalo – Exchange Street toward New York–Penn
U.S. Customhouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Customhouse, June 2009. Note the railroad bridge on the right, then partially obscured by trees.
Location	2245 Whirlpool St., Niagara Falls, New York
Area	less than one acre
Built	1863
NRHP reference #	73001227
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1973
Location
Niagara Falls Location within New York

The Niagara Falls Station and Customhouse Interpretive Center is an intermodal transit complex in Niagara Falls, New York. It serves Amtrak trains and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority buses, and also houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices servicing the Canada–United States border, as well as other facilities. It is on Amtrak's Empire Corridor and serves two Empire Service trains in each direction (terminating westbound) and one Maple Leaf in each direction daily. The station also provides a connection to NFTA Route 50 and the Discover Niagara Shuttle buses.

The facility consists of a complex built around the historic U.S. Customhouse, originally designed to service the U.S. side of the Niagara River border crossings from Canada. Completed in July 2016, the facility replaced Amtrak's former Niagara Falls station for passenger rail service on December 6, 2016. and also includes U.S. Customs and Border Protection, bus service, and a soon to be opened museum on the Underground Railroad.

To handle the large amount of goods exchanged over the border, the Lewiston customs house—the primary customs for the Niagara region—was relocated from Lewiston, NY to the Niagara Suspension Bridge in 1863. The customhouse served inspectors for the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, Niagara Cantilever Bridge, Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, and Michigan Central Railway Bridge at various points in its history. With Niagara Falls receiving the second highest amounts of American imports at one point, the customhouse was once a very busy post for its inspectors. In 1911 the building was partially destroyed by fire but later rebuilt. Remaining in a US Customs capacity until the 1960s, it was sold to several different commercial owners before it was originally abandoned in 1998.