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A huge crowd at the iconic New York square was pulling for famed daredevil Nik Wallenda and his sister Lijana as they made the nerve-racking 1,300 foot crossing between 1 Times Square and 2 Times Square.
"This has been my life, longer than I've been alive," Nik said at one point during the wire walk.
About 17 dramatic minutes in, the two met. Lijana then sat down on the wire, and Nik crossed over her. After a few tense moments when Lijana realized she had rehooked her pole wrong, they went on to finish at the opposite end from where they started.
For Nik, it was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream of "paying homage" to his family's performance at Madison Square Garden in 1928, he told ABC.
Nik said before the act that he was worried about his sister, who had worked so hard to come back from her injuries two and a half years earlier. Lijana was worried about her brother because he was worried about her.
Before the performance, Lijana said she was really nervous because it's so high up.
"I've got this," she said. "I've got this."