Van Leeuwen Ice Cream

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 22, 2025 →
• address550 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn 11238
• cuisineFrozen Desserts
• phone3472407453

Is Van Leeuwen Ice Cream clean?

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 22, 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 Van Leeuwen Ice Cream?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Required succinct nutritional statements not posted on menu(s) for adults and children (2,000 calories per day for adults)
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• ⚠️Additional nutritional information statement not posted, or additional nutritional information not provided

When was Van Leeuwen Ice Cream last inspected?

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream has 3 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2024, averaging 17 points.

Van Leeuwen Ice Cream vs Prospect Heights

Prospect Heights runs 78% clean across 140 tracked restaurants — 102 clean, 10 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 140 spots Cooked tracks in Prospect Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 27% 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.

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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 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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