Weekly closure report

NYC Restaurants Closed by the Health Department: Week of January 20, 2025

The NYC Health Department closed 4 restaurants from Jan 20 to Jan 26, 2025, with Brooklyn leading at 3.

By borough: Brooklyn 3, Manhattan 1.

4 of the 4 were cited for mice, rats, roaches or flies, and 2 for contaminated or unprotected food at the closing inspection.

4 had been closed before (Big Wong, Yaad Man Thing, Puerta del Sol and others); 0 were closed for the first time on record.

Every closure, and why

Big Wong

Closed Fri, Jan 24

Chinese · 67 Mott Street · Manhattan· Closed 2 times before

Critical: Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

Yaad Man Thing

Closed Wed, Jan 22

Caribbean · 3901 Church Avenue · Brooklyn· Closed 1 time before

Critical: After cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
Critical: Food, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
Critical: Duties of an officer of the Department interfered with or obstructed.
Critical: Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.

Puerta del Sol

Closed Tue, Jan 21

Latin American · 1550 Bay Ridge Avenue · Brooklyn· Closed 1 time before

Critical: Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
Critical: Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
Pesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.
Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

Roti-R-Us

Closed Tue, Jan 21

Caribbean · 7902 Flatlands Avenue · Brooklyn· Closed 2 times before

Critical: Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

See the full January 2025 closure report, restaurants closed more than once or why restaurants get closed.

Source: NYC DOHMH Restaurant Inspection Results on NYC Open Data. A closure listed here may already have been lifted; open a restaurant to see its latest inspection.