Winner Wednesday at NY Lottery – Multiple Winners for Powerball, Lotto and TAKE 5

Winning tickets sold in Staten Island and Brooklyn

New York State Gaming Commission, Division of the Lottery
Communications
518-388-3415
nylottery.ny.gov
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For Immediate Release – October 8, 2015

It was ‘Winner Wednesday’ at the New York Lottery with multiple winners in the Powerball, Lotto and TAKE 5 draw games. Staten Island had a winner with a $122,487 Lotto ticket sold at New Midfield Deli at 6378 Amboy Road, and Brooklyn had a $34,939 TAKE 5 winner sold at Lorimer Wines & Spirits at 494 Lorimer Street in Brooklyn.

The largest win was a $1 million Powerball prize sold at Wegmans in Niagara Falls.

Other winners included:

$150,000 Powerball ticket sold at Riverhead, Suffolk County
A second TAKE 5 ticket, also worth $34,939 sold in Mattituck, Suffolk County

“We are excited to see five large winners across multiple games in New York all on the same day. The New York Lottery has thousands of winners each day at different prize levels with our draw games, but this truly turned into a “Winner Wednesday’ for our players,” said Gardner Gurney, Acting Director of the Division of the Lottery.

The Lottery encourages everyone who bought 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 Manhattan office at 15 Beaver Street, New York, NY 10004 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.

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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