Someone in Brooklyn Has Been Sitting on Their $7 Million Lotto Ticket for a Year

If you bought a lotto ticket on July 24 of last year at Milky Way Deli at 1669 Ralph Avenue — in the Carnarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn — you could be a secret millionaire.

But you don’t have much time left to claim your winnings.

The New York Lottery has sent out one last call: If you don’t come forward by next Friday, July 24, your $7 million ticket will be thrown back in the lotto pool for future winners to share.

The winning numbers are 05, 20, 35, 43, 48 and the Cash Ball number 03.

“Time is running out for the winner of this $7,000,000 prize, but we are still hopeful that someone will come forward to claim it before July 24,” says Gardner Gurney, lotto director. “We are urging players to check and double-check their tickets one last time for the chance to claim this $7,000,000 jackpot prize.”

If it is you, in fact, who have been sitting on this $7 million ticket for the past year, as the rest of Brooklyn burns slowly in the furnace of your unfulfilled rags-to-riches story, here’s what you need to do RIGHT NOW, according to the New York Lottery website:

Lottery officials recommend that the ticket holder sign the back of the ticket and contact them immediately at 518-388-3370. The winner may claim the ticket at any one of the Lottery’s Customer Service Centers statewide, including the Manhattan office at 15 Beaver Street, New York, NY 10004 and the Long Island office at 45 South Service Road, Plainview, NY 11803. To learn more about how to redeem a prize, click here.