They’re the hottest ticket in town.
Workers at a Yonkers gas station are celebrating after selling three $1 million Powerball tickets in the same day in a feat that state lottery officials say is not impossible, but “infrequent.”
The improbable turn of events during Monday’s drawing left V&C Taneja, a convenience store at a BP gas station on Nepperhan Avenue, is getting swamped with locals hoping some of the magic rubs off, the workers said.
“They all know this is the lucky spot,” store manager Shahid Shah, 54, told The Post on Thursday. “This is the first time I ever see it like this. Everyone is coming by and buying Powerball tickets in the morning.
“Just everyone coming in buying Powerball tickets,” he said. “All of them asking me, ‘Who’s the winner, who’s the winner?’ They all want to know who won.”
Lee Park, the spokesman for the New York State Gaming Commission, said the winners are unknown, as the holders of the three second-place tickets that were sold at the store on Monday have yet to come forward.
“While multiple winning tickets of a million dollars or more purchased at a single location is indeed infrequent, good luck is certainly not unprecedented in the Empire State,” Park said.
He said its possible that the three tickets were all bought by one person who was simply playing a beloved lucky number multiple times.
He said other lottery winners have defied odds, including a Schenectady man who won both the first and second place prizes from the same CASH4LIFe ticket in 2023 — a $10 million award.
Its not clear if any store ever sold three winning tickets of the million-dollar Powerball prize — for which the odds are 1 in 11,688,053.52 — and lottery officials could not provide any examples.
The fact the store beat those long odds three times had customers buzzing.
“I saw it on TV,” said V&C Taneja customer Wilton Soto, 35, a Bronx grocery store worker. “That was here? Maybe this is the lucky spot. I got to come here all the time now.”
Xavier Santana, another 35-year-old Bronx resident and owner of a rental car business, agreed.
“This place sold three million dollar winners on Monday?” Santana told the clerk. “Yo, give me a quick pick. Yeah I’ll take that cash for life. How much are they? Yeah, give me $10!”
Meanwhile, Monday’s three winners have until Oct. 19, 2026 to claim their prizes. The main Powerball jackpot, which was not hit Monday, or during Wednesday’s drawing, stands at $344 million.
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