Mayor Robert Restaino’s proposed Centennial Park project sparks controversy By Ken Cosentino I must preface this by stating my opinion regarding the Seneca Nation of Indians (SNI). I have a strong friendship with the Mothers of the Seneca Nation, a group recognized by the SNI constitution of 1848.  Through thisRead More

Ask any lifelong resident of the city of Niagara Falls, NY “why do we have so much blight?” and you will hear many different stories that all share common themes. One of the major themes is the “do-nothing” developer archetype, who has historically “taken the money and ran.” Earlier thisRead More

By now, you have probably heard about the train full of vinyl chloride that derailed and exploded into the atmosphere near the village of East Palestine, Ohio. The toxic black plume of poisonous gas rose into a mushroom cloud formation that resembled an atomic blast. According to the federal government’sRead More

Hundreds of residents of Deveaux and the North End neighborhoods in Niagara Falls were up in arms Tuesday night over an unbearable humming coming from the Tulip Corporation at 3125 Highland Avenue. The humming sounded like a jet engine, and could be described as a horrible metal-on-metal sound. I wasRead More

Ken Cosentino, the writer of this article, mentions an old, failed dream of Niagara Falls, AquaFalls. An ambitious, and ultimately fanciful, plan to build an underground aquarium called AquaFalls was revealed during the administration of former Mayor James Galie. New York Governor George Pataki came to Niagara Falls to laudRead More