Winning lottery ticket sold in Long Beach
Customer at West End 7-Eleven won $50,000 prize
They may not be billionaires, but a number of lottery players on Long Island won big in the record-breaking Jan. 9 Powerball jackpot, with 10 winning tickets ranging from $50,000 to $1 million, including a $50,000 prize in Long Beach.
The largest winning ticket was a $1 million Powerball second prize sold at Mr. Tobacco in Smithtown, while a $150,000 ticket was sold at Broadway Service Center in Hicksville. Other winning tickets worth $50,000 each were sold at Kings Oceanside C-Store; Citgo in Mineola; 7-Eleven in Long Beach, at 969 W. Beech St.; Centereach Deli in Centereach; Stop & Shop in Medford; Stop & Shop in West Babylon; Huntington Shell in Huntington; and Jinal Card & Gift in Nesconset.
“While no one hit the jackpot prize, dozens of New Yorkers are vastly richer thanks to Powerball,” Gardner Gurney, director of the Division of the Lottery, said in a statement. “New Yorkers are cashing-in big time on history.”
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 or at Resorts World Casino New York City, 110-00 Rockaway Blvd., Jamaica.
To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.
This history-making Powerball jackpot has skyrocketed sales statewide to $155.8 million for drawings leading up to and including Saturday’s record jackpot drawing. Since this Powerball jackpot began on November 7, New Yorkers buying Powerballtickets have contributed more than $54.5 million in aid to education.
The next drawing is Wednesday with the jackpot now set at $1.4 billion. It is the biggest Powerball jackpot ever, largest jackpot prize of any lottery game in U.S. history, and the biggest lottery prize ever offered in the world that can be won with a single ticket.
If no one matches all five numbers plus the Powerball for Wednesday’s drawing, the jackpot will continue to grow. Tickets cost $2 per game and can be purchased until 10 p.m.
