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Pizza by the Park: Highest Health Code Violation Rate in Park Slope

Posted by Adam Kuban, March 19, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Gridskipper goes on a tear, looking at the NYC Dept. of Health website for violations in Park Slope (the writer of the piece lives there, hence the focus on that neighborhood). He finds that Pizza by the Park clocks in with a score of 111. For those of you who don't follow DOH tallies, they're like golf: the lower, the better. Anything from a 0 to a 28 passes, and 175 is the highest you can go on the scale.

I live in Park Slope, too, and I've never really written about Pizza by the Park because I don't think it's that great. I tried it a couple times when it opened and thought it had that grilled-cheese slightly burnt greasy taste to it. And when I was there one evening at a table in the back, looked into the open basement and saw a shipping palate holding cans and cans of prepared pizza sauce, I knew this wasn't a serious pizza joint. It's across the street from J. J. Byrne Memorial Park, just west of Fifth Avenue on 3rd Street, placing it in walking distance and wallet reach of the JHS 51 students whom I assume are a large part of the joint's customer base.

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