He’s going from the big house to the penthouse.
A retired Rikers Island guard who thought he’d won $1,500 in the lottery got an amazing surprise when he went to cash it in — the ticket was actually worth a cool $6 million.
Norris Henry, 76, of Amityville, LI, said the confusion came because his wife misread the numbers on his Oct. 14 Lotto ticket, leading him to believe he’d gotten only five of the six numbers.
When he showed his ticket to a lottery official, “She got a chair and told me, ‘You better sit down because you might pass out on me,’ ” Henry said at a press conference yesterday.
He’ll get a lump-sum payment of about $2.2 million after taxes and plans to buy a new car, maybe take a vacation with his wife, and help his kids pay off their student loans.