George Stephanopoulos rescued by FDNY after getting stuck in ABC’s elevator

ABC’s building bother seems to have followed it from the Upper West Side to its sparkly new downtown headquarters.

Last year Page Six reported that network’s old digs were suffering from a mouse problem and broken heating, among other woes.

So it must be of some frustration that — after decamping to trendy Hudson Square — star anchor George Stephanopoulos kicked off his work day on Tuesday morning stuck on an elevator.

The “Good Morning America” co-anchor arrived early for work and got stuck on his way up to his office, we’re told.

An insider told Page Six, “he was there for an hour and 15 minutes until the fire department came and had to go through the ceiling, and put up a ladder to get him out!”

We hear Stephanopoulos wasn’t stuck alone. His security, who greets him in the morning, was also along for the ride – or lack of a ride, as was the case. The serious news guy relived the experience this morning during the program’s “Play of the Day” segement.

He explained how he and “Richie, the man who keeps me safe… got to the second floor, and it just stopped between the second and third floor.”

And all he had to keep him entertained was the New York Times. (If it had been the Post we feel sure he’d have sent the firefighters away and told them to come back in another hour…). We’re told Stephanopoulos passed the time answering emails and reading the paper before the FDNY brought him to safety.

“Thanks to the New York City Fire Department,” Stephanopoulos said as they showed a clip of him, in shorts, being rescued by ladder.

“We were safe,” he added.

Stephanoupoulos’ gratitude didn’t end with just an on-air shout out. He also had a huge breakfast delivered to FDNY Engine 24, Ladder 5, Battalion 2, the fire station located in Soho on Sixth Avenue, blocks away from Disney’s Hudson Square Headquarters.

The morning show’s senior executive producer, Simone Swink, was also grateful, telling us, “We appreciate our neighbors at the FDNY being ready to help us out so early and still get ‘GMA’ and George on the air!”

Getting Stephanopoulos on-air isn’t the only thing they’re celebrating over at 7 Hudson Square. We hear they’re also toasting beating “Today” and as the No. 1 morning newscast for the first time in nearly two years.