


A 57-year-old Brooklyn man recently won $1 million from a scratch-off ticket he bought at a corner store in Harlem, state lottery officials say.
Rodney Henderson will now get 20 annual installments of $30,612 after claiming his big win in the New York Lottery’s “Strike It Rich!” game, according to a press release.
Henderson bought his golden ticket at 477 Food, which is also goes by Arkan Food Corp., on the corner of West 134th Street and Lenox Avenue, lottery officials said.
Henderson did not respond to Post requests for comment Sunday.
But a clerk who works at the bodega, Maged Ahmed, 49, told The Post that he was shocked to find out the store sold the ticket.
“We didn’t even know until now!” Ahmed said. “They didn’t even send a letter.”

Ahmed doesn’t know Henderson personally but said he hopes the win encourages others to pick up tickets there.
“If they feel the store is lucky, they come in to get more lucky,” Ahmed said. “More people come in and more people ask to play.”
Others envied Henderson’s extraordinary good fortune.
Bobby Carter, a 42-year-old Whole Foods employee, was asked if he was jealous and replied, “Yes, I am!


“Why wouldn’t I be?” Carter said. “I always play the lotto every day. I don’t have time to be working my whole life.”
But he saw the upside for the little corner mart.
“Now you can have more customers!” he told Ahmed.
The New York Lottery is the continent’s largest and most profitable lottery, and contributed $3.7 billion over the last fiscal year to help support public education in New York State, officials said.