{"id":134536,"date":"2026-02-15T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T17:43:30","slug":"staten-island-liquor-store-just-sold-a-lottery-ticket-worth-more-than-16000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/134536\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island liquor store just sold a lottery ticket worth more than $16,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 One lucky Staten Islander is bringing home over $16,000 after pulling a top-prize lottery ticket at a local liquor store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Feb. 9, 2026, a winning TAKE 5 ticket worth $16,248.50 was sold at Amboy Liquors Wine World, found at 4334 Amboy Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The identity of the winner has not been revealed, so check your tickets!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/lottery\/2024\/02\/ny-lottery-player-wins-over-34k-in-take-5-jackpot-prize.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TAKE 5 numbers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TAKE 5 numbers<\/a> are drawn from a field of one through 39. To win the TAKE 5 jackpot, match the five numbers on your ticket to the winning five-number combination drawn. It costs $1 per game to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The drawing is broadcast on television twice daily at 2:30 and 10:30 p.m. TAKE 5 players with midday and evening draws on the same ticket must check their numbers at <a href=\"http:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:nylottery.ny.gov;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">nylottery.ny.gov<\/a> to determine if they have the winning numbers for the corresponding midday or evening drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The odds of winning the TAKE 5 jackpot? One in 575,757.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Players can securely check their tickets on the New York Lottery app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partners.jackpot.com\/visit\/?bta=35266&amp;nci=5396&amp;utm_campaign=silive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jackpot.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jackpot.com<\/a> brings the lottery to your fingertips. Order your official New York Lottery tickets online with ease and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York Lottery continues to be touted as North America\u2019s largest and most profitable lottery, contributing $3.8 billion in Lottery Aid to Education for fiscal year 2023-2024 to help support education in New York state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\u2019s size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of lottery school funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/2026\/02\/staten-island-liquor-store-just-sold-a-lottery-ticket-worth-more-than-16000.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:silive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">silive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 One lucky Staten Islander is bringing home over $16,000 after pulling a top-prize lottery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[57235,7445,9,24,839,63,134,136,135,8986],"class_list":{"0":"post-134536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-amboy-liquors-wine-world","9":"tag-lottery-ticket","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-lottery","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news","17":"tag-winning-numbers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}