![]() There’s a chance of an even bigger winner before then, however - with Wednesday night’s Powerball draw standing at $490 million.Īt least some customers headed to Pronto on Wednesday hoping the luck would rub off as they bought their Powerball tickets. The New York win means the next drawing - on Friday - resets to $20 million. This week’s Mega haul was so huge because it has not been won since June 8, when a winning ticket was sold in Illinois, the lottery said. The lucky individual purchased the ticket at Pronto Pizza on West 48th Street in Manhattan. The previous biggest Big Apple win was the $343.8 million that Harlem retiree Robert Bailey, then 67, won in October 2018 - sharing the $687 million Powerball prize with another winner in Iowa. They collected just over $176 million after taxes - about $7.7 million each if divvied up evenly - remaining anonymous under a limited liability company suitably called New Life 2019 LLC. ![]() The jackpot is the biggest ever lottery win in the five boroughs, and just a few million less than the state record of $437 million that a group of 23 Long Island co-workers won on New Year’s Day in 2019. “At least one or two percent would be fair … the state is always the winner,” he complained. Robert Meceaĭespite his excitement for his now-uber rich customer, Khirala said he was “not excited” about his own $10,000 bonus. Elvis Rodriguez, who works for Channel 7, is seen taking a selfie with the lotto vending machine at Pronto Pizza. It is at least the third time the store has had million-dollar prizewinners - with a previous $3 million ticket sold by the same staffer as Tuesday’s Mega Millions one, Khirala said. With the pandemic and everything, probably they need it,” he said, hoping it “came at the right time for this person.” “Who knows if they have credit cards bills, kids to go to school……you never know,” he said. They deserve it to win,” he said, saying it was his “first major win” at the store. ![]() “I don’t know who it is,” Khirala said, noting he “had a lot of people buying tickets yesterday.”
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