NEW YORK CITY — Some neighborhood eateries are dirtier than others.
Each year, New York City’s Health Department inspects thousands of eateries across the city.
In 2023, inspectors looked for roaches, mice, grime and missing toilets at over 17,000 restaurants.
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Most eateries pass inspections, but some fall short of the city’s standards, accruing violation points for everything from broken light bulbs to “public health hazards,” like vermin and failure to follow food safety protocols.
Nearly 400 restaurant were ordered closed by city Department of Health inspectors this year.
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That means two percent of all DOH inspections resulted in closures.
To help visualize which neighborhoods fared best — or worst — Patch took the city’s self-reported data and compiled it into a map.
From nearly 1,800 inspections, only 13 eateries were ordered to immediately close. That means only .73 of all inspections resulted in the restaurant being closed.
Some other Manhattan neighborhoods fared well, including Hell’s Kitchen and Financial District/Tribeca keeping their closure rate below one percent.
The highest number of closed restaurants was found in the Community Board which covers Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the East Village, where 26 closures were ordered from 984 inspections — a fairly high closure rate of 2.65 percent.
And every neighborhood uptown, starting with the Upper West and East Sides, all found closure rates above two percent in 2023.
The highest rate of inspections resulting in closures for Manhattan was in Central Harlem, where four closures were ordered after 125 inspections, making it the only part of the island with a rate higher than three percent.
But the worst performing neighborhood, despite only having eight closures ordered, was in Community Board 12 in south Brooklyn, an area that includes Borough Park and parts of Kensington, Sunset Park and Midwood.
Their closure rate from 181 inspections? 4.42 percent — more than double the city average.
Check out the map above to see how your neighborhood fared.
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