NEW YORK -- Two maintenance workers left dangling from a collapsed scaffold near the top of a New York City skyscraper have been rescued.

A window washer is safely pulled through a window of the Hearst Tower in midtown Manhattan section of New York June 12, 2013. [Photo/Agencies]

The men were stuck Wednesday afternoon at the Hearst building in Manhattan.

Fire department officials say other workers cut open windows on the 44th floor and pulled the men inside.

The metal scaffold appeared to have buckled in the middle. The men were on either side, communicating with firefighters on the roof of the 46-story building for about an hour and a half before they were rescued.

The Hearst Tower is the world headquarters of the Hearst Corp.