Brooklyn, NY – A Brooklyn teenager has won $1,000 a week for life in a New York Lottery scratch-off game.
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Eighteen-year-old Robert Salo of Brooklyn does not buy Lottery tickets often. The soon-to-graduate high school senior said his recent purchase of a top-prize winning Win $1,000 A Week For Life ticket was a fluke.
“I just had a feeling,” said Salo of his decision to buy the $2 ticket. “Something drew me to it,” he continued. “It was like I was in the right place at the right time.” Salo purchased his $2 Win $1,000 A Week For Life scratch-off ticket May 14 during a stop at Coney Island Convenience on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn.
“It feels like I’m living in a dream,” said the future electrical engineer. “One minute, I’m driving around with my mom and uncle, and the next I’m yelling at them to pull over because I won a million dollars. We all thought it was a joke at first and then we were like, ‘Yeah! Okay! Wow!'”
Salo said after showing the ticket to his mother and uncle, he never let the ticket out of his sight again until he could claim it the following day at the Lottery’s Customer Service Center in Manhattan. “I hugged it the whole night,” he laughed.
As a top prize winner on the Win $1,000 A Week For Life scratch-off, Salo is guaranteed to receive a minimum payment of $1,000,000 over 20 years. Once the $1,000,000 prize has been realized, he will continue to receive an annual check for $52,000 (net $32,398) a year for life.
Salo said he plans to fulfill his dream of going to college and pursuing a career in electrical engineering, but he’s excited about some of the perks he’ll be able to enjoy along the way.
“Of course I’d like a Lamborghini or Ferrari, but I think a new BMW is more in my price range,” said the young Lottery millionaire. “Eventually, I’d like to buy a house, but for right now, I just want to enjoy life to the fullest.”
He’s one of several winners from Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island getting their ceremonial checks on Tuesday.
Television station NY 1 identified the store where the lotto was purchased at As 2317 Coney Convenience Inc On Coney Island Avenue.
HA! Just wait till the lad learns that as of now he will only get to keep about 40% of it with the other 60% going to various taxes as well as the Obama, Bloomberg, & Cuomo Trust Funds.
That’s on Coney Island Avenue between T & U. Good luck to the young man!
set for life?? That’s $52,000/year. Is that really enough to be set for life? But if you add that to a job that pays $50,000/year, now he’s set
Unfortunately, $1,000 per week for life is not going to set him up for the rest of his life. He will collect $52,000 per year, of which he will clear about $25,000 to $30,000 per year after various taxes are taken out. That is obviously not enough money to live on in NYC. It will be a very handy addition to his income but he will still need to get a job eventually.
Maybe he will make a nice tax deductable donation to my son’s Kollel?
Is the winner entitled to a full benefits package as well?
LoL. $1,000 a week is “set for life”???? Within 20 years $1,000 might not buy a tank of gas!
This boy is in for a surprise. The amount will maybe cover the payments for his new bmw. However he wil probably need a full time job to pay for his Insurance for an 18 yr old.
Not only is this not enough to set for life, but besides the fact that he will only have 25,000- 30,000 after taxes, he will be considered as someone making 52,000 for qualifieng for any programs eg. Health insurance.
And what people don’t understand, its no diffrent then if he would have won 3,000,000, he can anytime find a company that pays upfront his future income, and end up like all lottary winners, and the same way, any lump sum lottery winner can buy an annuity that will pay out for life…
think of him as a non jew not a yid and you wil calculate that indeed he has just gotten a nice chuck of his income for free. the kids go to public schools and they only have 1 or 2. so how much is food and rent already? He should be fine
whew…at least he’s 18, otherwise he wouldnt be eligible to even gamble in NY.still is nice to win any amount. nice investment on his $2…