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New York City Department of Health

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Mayor Bloomberg Defends Restaurant Letter-Grading System

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg claims that New York City's restaurant grading policy has led to a decline in the number of cases of salmonella poisoning citywide. According to the Associated Press, Bloomberg defended the grading at a press conference held at the Bronx's Zero Otto Nove restaurant on Tuesday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Street Kids: Groups Want to Make NYC Roads Child Safe

    Remember, back in the day, when you used to go outside and scamper around the streets of New York with all the other rosy-cheeked neighborhood kids, playing stickball and tag and hopscotch as the summer sun sank gently into the horizon? No? Well, not to worry, Runnin' Scared doesn't either -- and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Ask the Critics: Do Restaurants Have to Offer Restrooms?

    ​Sharon S. asks: I was in a small restaurant the other day and when I asked where the restroom was, I was told there wasn't one. I thought any place that served food had to offer toilets. Am I mistaken? What's the rule? Dear Sharon: I had actually been under the same impression, but the law is a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Restaurants Avoid DOH Grades By Claiming They're Supermarkets

    The New York City Health Department's system for grading restaurants can be a pain for chefs and restaurateurs. "If the Health Department comes during service and you are tempering meat or fish to cook, they are going to give you a 10-point fine right there, and at a couple hundred bucks a point it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    817 Jaydens Were Born in New York City Last Year

    It's that time of year again! Let's look at what we all named our babies in New York City in the last year, and figure out which name is the "most popular," which really means your kid is just going to get called by a first and last name, or some other nickname, all his or her life, so as to differe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Turkey's Nest Tavern, Beloved Bedford Ave Bar, Closed for Health Violations, Plans To Reopen Wednesday

    Creative Commons via BitchcakesBurrrrrp!Have no fear, Williamsburg lushes. Even though the Turkey's Nest, the Bedford Avenue drinking hovel made famous by its take-out margaritas and bathtub-sized beers, has been shuttered since last Wednesday, the old-school bastion of neighborhood degenerates is, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Bobo Already Reopened After DOH Closure

    bobonyc.tumblr.com/Bobo's gorgeous garden.​Earlier today, we linked to a post on the unromantically named Food Poison Journal about West Village restaurant Bobo being closed due to health department violations this past weekend. The restaurant reopened its doors Tuesday night.

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Mars Bar Closed for Good?

    ​After much speculation about its closure, the famed Mars Bar ceased operation today. Sitting outside of the dive, owner Hank Penza told us he shut the place down on Monday afternoon. "I closed up," he said. "I don't want to be bothered." Penza said this is it for the bar's location on the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Staten Island Mosquitoes Have Summer's First Cases of West Nile

    ​Today the NYC Health Department has announced that the West Nile Virus has been discovered in mosquitoes on Staten Island. These are the first documented cases of West Nile in the city this summer. No human cases of the virus have been found yet. The Health Department is trying to control the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Sous Vide, the City, and You: The Health Department in the Restaurant Kitchen

    Flickr: Arnold / InuyakiNo baggies for Babbo!​ We diners may be acutely aware of the bold, new letter grades popping up in the windows of our favorite haunts. But you're unlikely to see a restaurant plastering up the health-department plans they have to file to keep within code. As restaurant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Life Just Got Less Fun at the New York City Health Department

    "Life in a cubicle village."​The New York City Health Department has unleashed a whole new slew of rules for its employees, who apparently need quite a lot of instruction on how not to have any fun, not even one bit, in the office. Among the guidelines in "Life in the Cubicle Village," which w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    New York City Launches New Bed Bug Website, Rules

    ​The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene have rolled out a new website to educate locals about bed bugs as the warm months approach and everyone starts to get itchy again. The slick site offers an illustrated Q&A with a streaming voiceover to address issues like "How can I te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    NYC Health Department Launches App for Free Condoms; Also, Reminds You How to Use a Condom

    ​As we mentioned earlier, today is not just the special day of snuggles and commitment that everybody's all moony about, it's also the day of safe sexual encounters. And it's our own Mayor Bloomberg's birthday, to boot. In honor of this fortuitous triumvirate of occasions, the New York City He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Ask the Critics: What Should I Do if I Get Food Poisoning?

    stockmusicsite.comNot a fun way to spend the evening.​Rebecca F. asks: My boyfriend and I think we got food poisoning from a restaurant we ate at a few days ago since we both got sick within half an hour of each other. Are we supposed to tell the restaurant? What do we do? Dear Rebecca: Get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Russia's Latest Anti-Drinking Ad: "In Soviet Russia, Squirrel Drink YOU"

    THIS is a convincing anti-drinking image. Via BBC.​Why can't New York's anti-drinking ads -- by all accounts lame, by some accounts practically "outtakes from Fight Club" -- get more like Russia's? This drunken squirrel with the bellowing voice and raw, crazy eyes is everything we need to rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    NYC Health Department Worse Than a Nagging Mother About Your Little Drinking "Problem"

    ​The New York City Health Department simply insists on being a downer this holiday season. Hence, their new ad campaign, "Stop drinking while you're still thinking," which you'll start averting your eyes from on subways soon, if not already -- they go up this week. (Ads at right; enlarged afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    New Yorkers Are Not Letting Cigarettes Kill Them Quite So Much These Days

    ​Congrats, everyone! In terms of things that kill us, smoking is no longer such a biggie, says the New York City Health Department. Smoking-related deaths are down 17% from the past decade, with a mere 7,200 expiring on account of the nic in 2009. (Back in 2002, that number was at 8,722.)

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    New York City Baby Names Hail from Twilight, Brittany Spears

    ​ The New York City Health Department has announced the city's favorite baby names for 2009, and despite Twilight falling off the top 50 of USA Today's Best-Selling Books list, Stephenie Meyer's characters (at least one of them) will live on in posterity for the next 80-some years. Isabella, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2010

    Pigeons: They're Not That Bad

    ​Today in City Room's Complaint Box, where curmudgeons go to curmudgeon-ify, there's a charming little entry about New York's most common bird. Author Louise Dreier's Upper West Side neighbors have a pigeon nest, horror of horrors, and she's not going to stand for it anymore.

  • Film

    July 6, 2010

    Anthology Celebrates the Four Boroughs

    Forget Manhattan. "The Outer Boroughs on Film" celebrates the Bronx, Brooklyn, SI, and Queens

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Four Ads We Find More Offensive Than the Pulled Georgi Vodka Bikini Ads

    Image via Daily News​The MTA has pulled ads featuring models' bikinied bottoms -- with the Georgi Vodka logo on them -- from some Brooklyn buses after members of the Hasidic community complained. Georgi Vodka producer Martin Silver was outraged, hiring Georgi bikini-clad models to protest in h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    Dance and Sex for Health, as They Do in Brazil

    ​Oh Brazil, we love you so much. First you gave us Brazilians. And then you gave us that Gisele, what a charmer! Say what you will about models, but it was kinda funny when she had that tiff with Bridget Moynahan for saying that she considered Bridget's son her son, which of course pissed Brid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    April Fool's Prank Still on Subway Wall

    ​ Reader Rick Shur notes that an April 1st prank poster about extreme subway security measures, put up on the 110th Street downtown #1 subway wall, is still there! And the satirical poster involves all kinds of intrusive, invasive body searches that Homeland Security is allowed to do on passe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    NYC Health Department Didn't Get the Rat Memo

    ​The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (oh, really?) will "virtually eliminate" the Manhattan office of city pest control aides, reports AM New York.

  • News

    November 10, 2009

    The Pet-Death Business

    All dogs go to heaven. Yours will probably get there in an urn.

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Marion Nestle on Calorie Counts, 16 Months In

    When the New York City Department of Health regulated that chain restaurants must post calories, they promised huge health gains--calorie labels would prevent 30,000 cases of diabetes, they said, and reduce the number of obese New Yorkers by 150,000. Of course, it's too early to know whether or not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    News Roundup: Peter King vs. Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Panic at the Disco, Rihanna

    --One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Questioning Bloomie's Salt Cutback

    --One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    Drive Time Drop Box: Fresher Kills, The Yankee Pisser, and More

    --One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2007

    Restaurants Complying with Trans Fat Ban

    --One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    This Just in: Official Ball Field Statement from Cesar Fuentes

    --One King to another: New York congressman Peter King released a YouTube video in which he calls Michael Jackson a "pervert" and a "low life." Released on the Fourth of July, King begins by praising "cops, firefighters and teachers," but quickly moves to his less-than-remorseful point: "Let's kn ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    May 8, 2007

    The Dark Side of Summer

    Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

  • News

    June 6, 2006

    Letters

    Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2006

    Can You Say 'Hooray for Ratner'? You're Hired!

    Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

  • News

    October 25, 2005

    These Stats Are a Crime

    While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals' work on assault victims is booming

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1985

    While Bloomberg boasts of crime drop, the hospitals' work on assault victims is booming

  • People

    October 11, 2005

    Listings

    Affordable health care and services for women

  • News

    July 6, 2004

    On Rudy's GOP Menu: Flies, Expired Milk, and Inadequate Personal Cleanliness

    A closer look at Giuliani's dining suggestions

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Freebies

    Nothing Ventured

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Free and Low-Cost Health Care

    Speaking Ill

  • News

    December 3, 2002

    Digital Deterrence?

    Battling a Rise in Domestic Violence

  • Specials

    November 12, 2002

    Letters

    Battling a Rise in Domestic Violence

  • News

    July 17, 2001

    Mutant Malathion

    How New York’s Mosquito-Spray Campaign Spawned a Deadly Neurotoxin

  • News

    September 19, 2000

    Saving Babies

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    July 25, 2000

    The Money Trail

    Dollars Don’t Always Follow New Trends in AIDS Cases

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