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Hoping for huge $586M jackpot, NYers have Mega Millions fever

Big-dreaming New Yorkers shelled out Christmas green for a shot at Tuesday night’s monster lottery drawing that approached $600 million.

Mega Millions officials on Monday projected the jackpot to reach $586 million, which would make it the fourth biggest in US history.

If one person nails all six winning numbers, it’d be worth a one-time cash out of $316.5 million.

Las Vegas visitors Dana Stomberg, 33, and Todd Young, 45, got engaged on Friday — in front of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center — and believed they’re due some good fortune.

“We got engaged on Friday the 13th, that has to be good luck,” Young said after buying tickets in Union Square.

Retired corrections officer and Washington Heights resident Betty Mason purchased tickets at a West 101st Street news stand on Monday, but understood that chances of her winning are about the same as being hit by an asteroid.

“I know I’m not going to win,” said Mason, who dreams of living in a doorman building someday.

If she did win big dollars, Mason said: “I’d move … [to] somewhere in the city with a doorman to take my packages. And I’d have a chauffeur to take me wherever I want to go. And I’d get a customized bus for my chauffeur to drive me around to all of the 50 states.”

William Morgan, a 50-year-old social worker from Melrose, Queens, said all he doesn’t even need to win the big prize to be happy.

“I’m looking for the second-place prize, $1 million. That’s all I really need,” he said, after buying tickets in Union Square. “I’d pay off my mortgage and student loan.”

Mega Millions is played in 43 states, the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands.

Additional reporting by Aaron Feis and David K. Li