The New York Lottery announced on Saturday, Jan. 16, that one top-prize winning ticket was sold for the Jan. 15 TAKE-5 drawing. The ticket, worth $74,021.00, was purchased at BP gas station, located at 824 Allerton Avenue in the Allerton section of The Bronx. It was the second top prize winning ticket sold in the Bronx in the space of a few days. On Friday, Jan. 15, the Norwood News reported that another winning ticket in Jan. 14 TAKE-5 drawing, worth $63,584.00, was purchased at UMK Inc, located at 5582 Broadway in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx.

The five winning numbers for the TAKE 5 game are drawn from a field of one to 39. The TAKE-5 drawing is televised every day at 10:30 p.m. A Lottery draw game prize of any amount may be claimed up to one year from the date of the drawing.

According to The New York Lottery, it continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable lottery, contributing $3.38 billion in fiscal year 2019-2020 to help support education in New York State. The Lottery says its revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education, and that it takes into account both a school district’s size and its income level with larger, lower-income school districts receiving proportionately larger shares of lottery school funding.

New Yorkers struggling with a gambling addiction, or who know someone who is, can find help by calling the State’s toll-free, confidential HOPEline at 1-877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-7369) or by texting HOPENY (467369) Standard rates may apply.