Tag: department of health

Trying to eliminate rats in NYC brings to mind Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a hill.

An alarming amount of exposed rat poison was found in tree beds, on the sidewalk, and in West 75th Street, between Broadway and West End Avenue, over the past 48 hours.

The top sanitation concern on the Upper West Side is that of the rodent population

Go back into voluntary lockdown, NYC Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi, M.D. urged older New Yorkers, those with underlying

Mamma's Famous Pizza and Burgers on Broadway between 85th and 86th Streets was closed by the health department because an inspector found a variety of critters hanging around that shouldn't have been there. Mamma's has had run-ins with the DOH before. In June, the restaurant netted a whopping violation score ...

Wouldn't today be a great day to sit outside with a view of the Hudson and have a burger, some fries and a couple (a few, let's not lie) drinks? Well, one of the neighborhood's top spots for just

It's hard to think of the restaurant Pomodoro on 70th Street and Columbus Avenue without remembering the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry proclaimed "Everyone goes to Pomodoro to break up." I have no idea how it got that reputation, but you can watch the scene where Kramer breaks up with ...

Sushi Hana, on Amsterdam Avenue between 82nd Street and 83rd Street, was closed this week by the Department of Health, for a variety of transgressions. The restaurant racked up 59 total points -- 28 and above tends to get you special scrutiny from health inspectors. The major violations (including evidence ...

We have written about the Chinese food crisis on the Upper West Side -- the neighborhood, once a reliable destination for Chinese food, has fewer and fewer solid options available. But there's a new kind of crisis brewing. In the past week and a half, three Asian restaurants on the ...