NYC Restaurants Closed by the Health Department: Week of February 24, 2025

Juice, Smoothies, Fruit Salads · 78-14 Roosevelt Avenue · Queens· First closure on record

• Failure to comply with an order of the Board of Health, Commissioner or Department.

American · 5 Ferry Terminal Drive · Staten Island· First closure on record

• Critical: Sewage disposal system is not provided, improper, inadequate or unapproved.
• 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: Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
• Critical: Food preparation area, food storage area, or other area used by employees or patrons, contaminated by sewage or liquid waste.

Bakery Products/Desserts · 48-10 Broadway · Queens· First closure on record

• 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: Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.
• Critical: Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
• Critical: Food preparation area, food storage area, or other area used by employees or patrons, contaminated by sewage or liquid waste.

Latin American · 265 West 37 Street · Manhattan· First closure on record

• Critical: Insufficient or no hot holding, cold storage or cold holding equipment provided to maintain Time/Temperature Control for Safety Foods (TCS) at required temperatures
• Critical: Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
• Critical: Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• Critical: No approved written standard operating procedure for avoiding contamination by refillable returnable containers.

Coffee/Tea · 1412 Nostrand Avenue · Brooklyn· First closure on record

• Critical: Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
• Critical: Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• Critical: Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• Critical: Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

Latin American · 35-19 37 Avenue · Queens· First closure on record

• Critical: Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• Critical: No approved written standard operating procedure for avoiding contamination by refillable returnable containers.
• 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: No hand washing facility in or adjacent to toilet room or within 25 feet of a food preparation, food service or ware washing area. Hand washing facility not accessible, obstructed or used for non-hand washing purposes. No hot and cold running water or water at inadequate pressure. No soap or acceptable hand-drying device.

Japanese · 55 5 Avenue · Brooklyn· First closure on record

• Critical: Food, supplies, and equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
• Critical: Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
• Critical: Properly scaled and calibrated thermometer or thermocouple not provided or not readily accessible in food preparation and hot/cold holding areas to measure temperatures of TCS foods during cooking, cooling, reheating, and holding.
• Critical: Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.

Coffee/Tea · 182-04 Horace Harding Expressway · Queens· First closure on record

• Critical: Toilet facility not provided for employees or for patrons when required. Shared patron-employee toilet accessed through kitchen, food prep or storage area or utensil washing area.