At 86 years old, Kim Knor made her 1,000th skydive this week in New Wales, Florida, alongside her two daughters. The “skydiving grandma” has the kind of biography Hollywood blockbusters are made of: After being a member of the first U.S. Women’s Parachute Team in 1962, she took a few decades off to raise her family only to return to the sport she loved later in life and hit impressive milestones.

It was a big week in New York City, but it’s also a big year for the city celebrating the 400th anniversary of its founding. National Geographic has long covered the spirited metropolis—including when a replica of the Mayflower retraced the Pilgrims’ 1620 journey across the Atlantic and sailed into New York Harbor in 1957. Look back at other important New York moments Nat Geo captured in the last century.

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