{"id":245226,"date":"2026-05-27T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:02:09","slug":"brooklyn-lottery-winner-francine-fortune-wins-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245226\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn lottery winner Francine Fortune wins $1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York woman named Francine Fortune <a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/winner?francine-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">is living up to her name.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortune, a Brooklyn resident, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/lottery\/2026\/05\/a-new-york-woman-won-1-million-from-a-scratch-off-ticket-and-her-name-couldnt-be-more-perfect.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a top prize winner<\/a> of the New York Lottery\u2019s 50Xtra scratch-off game, the New York State Lottery said in a press release on Tuesday. She scratched off the box worth $1 million, and she took home a lump sum payment of $416,325 after all required withholdings were collected.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune purchased the winning ticket at 317 Marcus Garvey Liquors, also located in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, there were still two top prizes remaining in the 50Xtra game, according to the state lottery. <a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/scratch-off-game?game=1685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To win<\/a>, players must scratch their ticket and uncover a matching winning number that corresponds to the $1 million prize amount, or reveal a \u201c50X\u201d symbol to multiply a lower-tier prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York Lottery scratch-off games generated $4,339,794,048 in total sales during fiscal year 2024-2025,\u201d the lotto statement said. \u201cSchool districts in Westchester County received $136,234,133 in Lottery Aid to Education funds during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Lottery is the largest and most profitable in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York woman named Francine Fortune is living up to her name. Fortune, a Brooklyn resident, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,85,9,24,63,2632],"class_list":["post-245226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-snyde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245226","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=245226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}