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Lock Yard
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score19 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedDecember 11, 2024
- address9221 5 Avenue, Brooklyn 11209
- cuisineAmerican
- phone7183335282
Is Lock Yard clean?
Lock Yard is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 11, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Lock Yard?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 11, 2024, 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.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth 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.
When was Lock Yard last inspected?
Lock Yard has 3 inspections on record going back to August 11, 2022, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2024 | Grade B | 19 pts |
| March 28, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 24 pts |
| August 11, 2022 | Grade A | 7 pts |
Lock Yard vs Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge runs 79% clean across 364 tracked restaurants — 249 clean, 18 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 364 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Ridge, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.
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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 December 11, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.