Russ Pizza

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedApril 24, 2025 →
• address745 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn 11222
• cuisinePizza
• phone7183839463

Is Russ Pizza clean?

Russ Pizza is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 24, 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 Russ Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.

When was Russ Pizza last inspected?

Russ Pizza has 5 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2022, averaging 17 points.

Russ Pizza vs Greenpoint

Greenpoint runs 80% clean across 317 tracked restaurants — 218 clean, 19 mid, 37 cooked.

Against the 317 spots Cooked tracks in Greenpoint, this one comes out cleaner than 28% of them.

Other spots in Greenpoint

• A The Screen Door
  clean · July 29, 2025
• B Fabio's Pizzeria
  mid · August 13, 2026
• A Kaskade
  clean · January 17, 2026
• A Relax
  clean · April 15, 2026
• A Brooklyn Lantern
  clean · January 15, 2025
• A Homemade Taqueria
  clean · November 12, 2025

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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.

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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 April 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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