Garden City Resident Wins $10K Playing Powerball

A Garden City resident is now $10,004 richer after claiming the cash prize he won playing Powerball.

The New York Lotter announced Monday that Laurence Mcaleer, of Garden City, was a winner in the March 31 drawing. Mcaleer had purchased his winning ticket at the Maspeth Express Minimart on Grand Avenue in Maspeth.

He can claim his winnings at any of the Lottery's stand-alone Customer Service Centers. The nearest one is actually located in Garden City.

The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable lottery, contributing over $3 billion in fiscal year 2010-2011 to help support education in New York State. The Lottery's aid represents over 15 percent of total state education funding to local school districts.

Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education. It takes into account both a school district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.