{"id":69233,"date":"2025-12-12T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69233\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:29:07","slug":"shopper-wins-big-with-lottery-ticket-from-bronx-corner-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/69233\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopper wins big with lottery ticket from Bronx corner store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx player wins $18K in Take 5 midday drawing with ticket from University Fresh Market<\/p>\n<p>BRONX, NY \u2013 A Take 5 player in the Bronx scored a top prize of $18,408 in Wednesday\u2019s midday drawing with a winning ticket sold at University Fresh Market on University Avenue, New York Lottery officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket matched all five numbers in the December 11 midday draw, securing the day\u2019s top prize. The winning slip was purchased at 1707 University Avenue, a high-traffic location in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Take 5 drawings are held twice daily at 2:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., with players selecting five numbers from a field of 1 through 39. Prizes must be claimed within one year from the date of the drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The winner has not yet been publicly identified. Retailers who sell top-prize winning tickets are eligible for bonuses from the Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Lottery remains the most profitable lottery system in North America, contributing $3.6 billion this year alone to support public education across the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>One top-prize winning Take 5 ticket worth $18,408 was sold in the Bronx<\/p>\n<p>The winning ticket was purchased at University Fresh Market on University Avenue<\/p>\n<p>Take 5 drawings occur twice daily and prizes can be claimed within one year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx player wins $18K in Take 5 midday drawing with ticket from University Fresh Market BRONX, NY \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-69233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69233","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=69233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}