The Commissioner

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 4, 2025 →
• address247 5 Avenue, Brooklyn 11215
• cuisineAmerican
• phone3476893968

Is The Commissioner clean?

The Commissioner is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 4, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Commissioner?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️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.

When was The Commissioner last inspected?

The Commissioner has 3 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2024, averaging 9 points.

The Commissioner vs Park Slope-Gowanus

Park Slope-Gowanus runs 86% clean across 524 tracked restaurants — 408 clean, 23 mid, 46 cooked.

Against the 524 spots Cooked tracks in Park Slope-Gowanus, this one comes out cleaner than 21% of them.

Other spots in Park Slope-Gowanus

• A Parklife
  clean · November 22, 2025
• A Szechuan Delight
  clean · August 19, 2026
• A Milk Bar
  clean · December 8, 2025
• A Bar Basic
  clean · March 19, 2025
• A Baciccia
  clean · January 3, 2025
• A Poke Bowl Station
  clean · September 1, 2026

See every restaurant inspection 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.

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 September 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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