NYS Gaming Commission
January 15, 2016

19 Long Island Lottery Players Win Big on Wednesday’s Powerball Drawing

Highest winning ticket: $1M sold in Bethpage

New York State Gaming Commission, Division of the Lottery

Communications

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For Immediate Release – January 15, 2016



In Wednesday’s $1.58 billion record-breaking Powerball jackpot, Lottery players on Long Island won millions of dollars with 19 winning tickets ranging from $50,000 to $1 million.

The largest winning ticket was a $1 million Powerball second prize sold at the 7-Eleven at 25 Stewart Avenue in Bethpage. Other winning tickets worth $50,000 each were sold at:

 

  • ZDB CORP, 2825 JERUSALEM AVE., NORTH BELLMORE  
  • HEALTH MART PHARMACY, 179 ATLANTIC AVE., FREEPORT        
  • 7-ELEVEN,276 UNIONDALE AVE., UNIONDALE        
  • NEWSSTATION INC, 23 WEST PARK AVENUE, LONG BEACH      
  • TURNPIKE ENTERPRISES ONE INC, 315 ROCKAWAY TURNPIKE, LAWRENCE        
  • STOP & SHOP, 3400 MERRICK RD.,SEAFORD          
  • SUPER D, 357 N MAIN ST., FREEPORT        
  • KING KULLEN, 231 WEST MERRICK ROAD, VALLEY STREAM    
  • RIMA LLC, 947 ROSEDALE ROAD, VALLEY STREAM
  • DEV CARDS & GIFTS INC, 460 COUNTY RD 111 SUITE 11, MANORVILLE      
  • ANG EXXON, 328 ROUTE 109, WEST BABYLON    
  • VALERO, 112 MONTAUK HWY, WESTHAMPTON BEACH
  • KING KULLEN, 600 NORTH WELLWOOD AVE., LINDENHURST      
  • ARJ OK GAS, 755 DEER PARK AVE., NORTH BABYLON    
  • KING KULLEN, 307 INDEPENDENCE PLAZA RT. 25, SELDEN          
  • 7-ELEVEN, 811 WAVERLY AVE., HOLTSVILLE      
  • WATER MILL FUEL COMPLEX, 960 MONTAUK HWY, WATER MILL      
  • 7-ELEVEN, 20 WATER STREET SHOPS, SAG HARBOR      

“While no one hit the jackpot prize, New Yorkers are vastly richer thanks to Wednesday’s historic Powerball drawing,” said Gardner Gurney, Director of the Division of the Lottery. “From Montauk Point to Niagara Falls and from Plattsburgh to Jamestown, two million prizes totaling over $18.8 million dollars were won in New York.”

The Lottery encourages everyone who buys a New York Lottery draw game ticket to check their tickets again, as they could be holding a winner. Tickets expire one year after the game’s drawing.

The winners may claim the tickets at any one of the Lottery’s Customer Service Centers statewide, including the Long Island office at 45 South Service Road, Plainview, NY 11803 or at Resorts World Casino New York City, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11420. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.

This history-making Powerball jackpot skyrocketed sales statewide to $258.9 million for drawings leading up to and including Wednesday’s record jackpot drawing. Since this Powerball jackpot began on November 7, New Yorkers buying Powerball tickets have contributed more than $90.63 million in aid to education.

 

Powerball is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Prior to this jackpot, the largest Powerball jackpot was $590.5 million won in Florida in May 2013.

 

About the New York Lottery

The New York Lottery continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable Lottery, contributing $3.11 billion in fiscal year 2014-2015 to help support education in New York State.  The Lottery’s contribution represents 14 percent of total state education aid to local school districts. 

New York Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education.  It takes into account both a school district’s size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.

 



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