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New Ocean
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 4, 2025
- address393 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan 10027
- cuisineChinese
- phone2122899293
Is New Ocean clean?
New Ocean is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 4, 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 New Ocean?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
When was New Ocean last inspected?
New Ocean has 5 inspections on record going back to March 10, 2022, averaging 24 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| August 5, 2024 | — | |
| April 18, 2024 | Grade C | 44 pts |
| May 4, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 30 pts |
| March 10, 2022 | Grade A | 11 pts |
New Ocean vs Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds
Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds runs 71% clean across 91 tracked restaurants — 60 clean, 5 mid, 19 cooked.
Against the 91 spots Cooked tracks in Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 March 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.