Alfredo Caceres of Chile and Lynbrook, right, and Eduardo Lizano...

Alfredo Caceres of Chile and Lynbrook, right, and Eduardo Lizano of Costa Rica and Valley Stream, pause to watch the rescue of trapped miners in Chile at the San Antonio Bakery in Valley Stream. (Oct. 13, 2010) Credit: Photo by David Pokress

 Patrons at the San Antonio Bakery in Valley Stream were joyful, if sleep-deprived, as they gathered to see the historic moment unfolding in Chile.

Many had been up all night watching as the first of 33 miners were hoisted from 2,000 feet below the earth's surface. And now they gathered at the premises owned by a Chilean native, quietly marveling as one by one, the miraculous rescues continued.

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