Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and the world with two skyscraper crossings on a tightrope without a safety net or a harness.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

A tightrope daredevil has completed a walk that took him quarter of a mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in north-eastern Arizona.