An Upstate NY resident has won $1 million in New York\u2019s Million Dollar Raffle, claiming one of 15 top prizes awarded in the lottery\u2019s promotional drawing.<\/p>\n
Amritpal Singh purchased the winning ticket at A&A Food Mart in Painted Post. The raffle drawing took place on Oct. 26.<\/p>\n
Singh, who lives in Painted Post, will receive $650,788 as a one-time lump sum payment following required tax withholdings.<\/p>\n
The Million Dollar Raffle was created to commemorate the Erie Canal bicentennial. Fifteen tickets across New York were selected to win the $1 million top prize, with winning tickets sold in Bronx, Chenango, Dutchess, Genesee, New York, Queens, Schenectady, Suffolk and Westchester counties, in addition to Steuben County.<\/p>\n
The retailer that sold Singh\u2019s ticket earned a $5,000 bonus for selling a winning ticket in the promotion.<\/p>\n
Here is where the 15 top-prize winning raffle tickets were sold:<\/p>\n
A&A Food Mart, Painted Post<\/p>\n
BW\u2019s Restaurant, Pavilion<\/p>\n
Conoco Quick Stop, Patchogue<\/p>\n
Fairfield Food, Bronx<\/p>\n
He & Jay Stationery, Bronx<\/p>\n
Heng Yun Grocery, New York<\/p>\n
J&E Dynamic Store, Jamaica<\/p>\n
Kings Gift Shop, Bronx<\/p>\n
Lincoln Dale Wine And Liquor, Somers<\/p>\n
M&J Liquor, Bronx<\/p>\n
Mirabito, New Berlin<\/p>\n
Mobil (Throgs Neck Petro), Bronx<\/p>\n
Newspaper Stand, New York<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s Shops, Poughkeepsie<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s Shops, Schenectady<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Upstate NY resident has won $1 million in New York\u2019s Million Dollar Raffle, claiming one of 15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-103355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}