Carvel

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedJuly 29, 2024
• inspection score25 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedDecember 2, 2025 →
• address4704 Avenue N, Brooklyn 11234
• cuisineFrozen Desserts
• phone7183389355

Is Carvel clean?

Carvel currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on July 29, 2024 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on December 2, 2025 scoring 25 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Carvel?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  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.

When was Carvel last inspected?

Carvel has 4 inspections on record going back to April 13, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Carvel vs Flatlands

Flatlands runs 74% clean across 102 tracked restaurants — 70 clean, 10 mid, 14 cooked.

Against the 102 spots Cooked tracks in Flatlands, this one comes out cleaner than 55% of them.

Other spots in Flatlands

• ⏳ Island Choiz Restaurant
  cooked · July 20, 2026
• A China Tokyo Restaurant
  clean · April 21, 2025
• A Sunny John Pizza
  clean · December 23, 2025
• A No.1 Kitchen
  clean · October 8, 2025
• B Jay's Quick Bites
  mid · September 3, 2026
• B Saigon Bar And Grill
  mid · September 4, 2024

See every restaurant inspection in Flatlands →

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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 December 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.