Niagara Falls, NY — With the weak economy, tourism has been slow on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls. A conditional lifting of a ban on death-defying acts clears the way for high-wire star Nik Wallenda to walk across the falls. The legislation passed the New York state Senate last month.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Suni Frese and her daughter, Natalie Frese, 8, of Kansas, have their picture taken at American Falls.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Visitors on the American Falls from the Cave of the Winds tour on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls
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Niagara Falls, NY — James Manning waits for visitors to the Wax Museum at Niagara on a slow evening.
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Niagara Falls, NY — A woman walks down a nearly deserted street in Niagara Falls, N.Y., where the population has fallen by half since 1960.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Oakwood Cemetery in Niagara Falls, N.Y., houses the grave of Annie Edson Taylor; she became the first person to go over the falls in a barrel and live on Oct. 24, 1901. Buried beside her is Carlisle Graham, who was the first to ride a barrel through the rapids at the falls' base in 1886.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Niagara Falls' Daredevil Museum has displays of various people who have attempted to go over the falls.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Members of the Wares family, from Orlando, Fla., have their picture taken at the Daredevil Museum, where there is a display of barrels people have used to attempt to go over the falls.
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Niagara Falls, NY — At the Daredevil Museum, an old photograph show a tightrope walker over the falls. Such stunts have been banned for 50 years.
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Niagara Falls, NY — At the Daredevil Museum, a collection of old stereo photographs shows tightrope walkers of the past.
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Niagara Falls, NY — Visitors look out at the American Falls as seen from the U.S. side of Niagara Falls. On the Canadian side, officials spent years building a bustling tourist industry; the U.S. side banked on factories to pay the bills. Those factories are gone.
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