Breaking News: NEW YORK: Two workers have been rescued from a skyscraper scaffold dangling 71 stories above a midtown Manhattan street. The harrowing rescue occurred on the 56th Street side of the Metropolitan Tower condominiums, near Carnegie Hall. Police and fire department officials had to use glass cutters to remove a window and pull the workers through to safety. A crowd gathered below as the workers were pulled into the building through a window. Metropolitan Tower is located between 56th and 57th streets, and Fifth and Sixth avenues. The Buildings Department has been called to the scene. The 78-story tower was built in 1986. Click picture for slideshow.
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