Lotto lady luck has struck again at a Queens store.
Shiv Convenience Store on Hillside Avenue in Jamaica, which sold the winning $133 million Mega Millions ticket just last month, hit another winner – this time with a customer taking the Sunday, August 23, Take Five first prize of $66,053.
“The guy came in yesterday to my store and put the ticket in the machine, and it was the winner,” said Shiv Convenience Store manager Bharat Kumar Patel, on Tuesday morning, August 25. “I’m excited again.”
Patel said the winning customer, who he said plays New York Lottery’s Take Five everyday at the store, is a manager at a Brooklyn Popeye’s chicken store. The winning numbers were 8,10,25,31,36.
“He always does the Quick Pick,” Patel said. “He was very happy.”
Last month, Shiv Convenience Store sold the only winning ticket in the $133 million Mega Millions jackpot to MTA collections agent Aubrey Boyce, who took home about $54.7 million after taxes. Patel’s store also received a $10,000 check from the Lottery for selling the winning ticket.
However, the two winning tickets in the span of seven weeks were not the only winners that Shiv Convenience has sold. Patel said the store sold another Take 5 winner for more than $70,000 last year.
With Tuesday’s, August 25, Mega Millions jackpot at a whopping $252 million, Patel has already seen an increase in customers who are hoping that the adage things come in threes comes true.
“A lot of people are coming in to play that,” Patel said.
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