Park Slope Candy Store Sold $1M Lottery Ticket

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — One lucky Park Slope shopper won $1 million when buying lottery tickets on 7th Avenue.

Two second-prize winning tickets were sold in New York for Saturday's Powerball drawing. Nobody hit the $625 million jackpot, but each second-prize ticket is worth $1 million.

One lucky ticket was sold at the Park Slope Candy Shop at 95 7th Avenue and the other from Silver Six News Corp on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx.

There was also eight third-prize winning tickets worth $50,000 sold in New York for Saturday's drawing.

The winning numbers were: 24-25-52-60-66 and Powerball No. 5.

Because nobody claimed the first prize, though, the Powerball jackpot rises to $750 million for the Wednesday, March 27 drawing.

This wasn't the first time Brooklyn shoppers found themselves with a lucky ticket. Just a few months ago, a nearly $300 million ticket was sold at a gas station in East New York.

Two Queens men won $19.5 million from a scratch-off ticket in July and a Harlem man won $687.8 million, the largest jackpot in state history, in October.

Powerball tickets are sold for $2 in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The jackpot starts at $40 million and increases after each drawing if there isn't a winner. The odds of winning the jackpot are one in 292 million.