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Athena
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 10, 2025
- address535 6 Avenue, Brooklyn 11215
- cuisineGreek
- phone7189654578
Is Athena clean?
Athena is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 10, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Athena?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating informationFailure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
When was Athena last inspected?
Athena has 5 inspections on record going back to March 16, 2022, averaging 24 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 10, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| February 5, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 9 pts |
| January 31, 2024 | closed by the city | 48 pts |
| September 6, 2022 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| March 16, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 41 pts |
Athena vs Park Slope-Gowanus
Park Slope-Gowanus runs 85% clean across 512 tracked restaurants — 397 clean, 24 mid, 44 cooked.
Against the 512 spots Cooked tracks in Park Slope-Gowanus, this one comes out cleaner than 21% of them.
Other spots in Park Slope-Gowanus
How New York grades restaurants
New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.
Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.