{"id":724,"date":"2025-10-14T05:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/724\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:17:21","slug":"bronx-lottery-winner-claims-1-million-prize-from-a-2024-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/724\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx lottery winner claims $1 million prize \u2014 from a 2024 drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Bronx man claimed a $1 million Mega Millions second-place prize in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He matched five numbers in the June 11, 2024 drawing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winning ticket was purchased at Three Star Candy Store on Metropolitan Avenue in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK &#8211; A Bronx has recently become the latest New York Lottery millionaire after matching the first five numbers in the<a href=\"https:\/\/nylottery.ny.gov\/winner?jason-williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:June 11, 2024, Mega Millions drawing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> June 11, 2024, Mega Millions drawing<\/a>. His ticket earned the game\u2019s $1 million second-tier prize, and he only recently stepped forward to claim his winnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The winning numbers for that drawing were 01, 05, 07, 22, 24,\\ and the Mega Ball 08.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man chose to receive his winnings as a one-time lump-sum payment of $606,313 after required tax withholdings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lottery officials say the ticket was purchased at the Three Star Candy Store, located at 1673 Metropolitan Ave., Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the New York Lottery, Mega Millions generated more than $358 million in sales statewide during fiscal year 2024-2025, with $1.42 billion in Lottery Aid to Education distributed to school districts across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article was written with information from a New York Lottery official &#8220;Winner&#8221; announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Bronx man claimed a $1 million Mega Millions second-place prize in October. He matched five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,840,9,24,839,63,122,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-mega-millions","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-lottery","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}