Scratch up $5M
Bronx student nets big payday from lottery ticket
A BRONX psychology student took a chance — and the payoff was a cool $5 million.
“It’s still not real. It hasn’t sunk in,” a delighted Genesis Coste, 20, said of the scratch-off ticket score that will make all the difference for her and her hard-working mom.
Coste was one of eight superlucky winners who got an oversized check Friday from the New York Lottery.
The woman who played on a whim at her local bodega could barely contain her glee as she picked up her payment from beneath a Christmas tree at Resorts World Casino in New York City.
“I went byb my mom’s’ jobj bf for lunch one day (and) I decided to buy a ticket in the store across the street. I just bought one, I bought a scratch-off. I thought ‘What are the chances?’” she said.
The chances, as it turned out, were excellent.
“Thi “This means so muchh to me and d my mom. She works two jobs and she’s worked two jobs for as long as I can remember. Now she won’t have to,” the student said.
A trip to Cancun is in their future, but that’s going to be their only splurge, Coste said. The savvy students plans to save her money afterte buying a house.
Hicksville dad Thomas Rea, 55, p picked six winning Lotto numbers th that scored him $12.4 million.
Margaret Clark, 46, of Coram, im impulsively bought a Mega Milli lions ticket last month that turned in into a winner. Her $1 million prize was quadrupled to $4 million because she’d also hit the Megaplier.
East New York maintenance w worker Brian King won $3 million th thanks to a game called King’s R Ransom.
Norma Ramos of Manhattan, Victor Olaya of Rego Park and Steven Dobies of Glen Head became the first New York Lottery players to win $1 million from Monopoly Millionaire’s Club, a multistate game that debuted in October.