Two New York City window washers are safe after their scaffold outside a Midtown skyscraper started swinging uncontrollably, FDNY says.

Window washers left dangling from the 78th floor of a NYC building. FOX 5 NY's Meredith Gorman with the details.

Firefighters raced to rescue two window washers trapped on broken scaffolding blowing in the wind on the side of a high-rise building in Columbus Circle Friday morning, according to a report. First responders were called to 25 Columbus Circle around 9:47 a.

A pair of unsecured window washers had the fright of their lives Friday when the wind seized their scaffold, sending it twisting and turning almost eight stories up — and smashing into the luxury Manhattan high-rise they were cleaning.