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The kosher pizza store which has been part of the landscape at Grand and Essex Streets for decades was closed down by the City’s Commissioner of Health. The City’s Dept. of Health website currently cites 10 code violations, detected at a 12/04/2006 inspection. Among them:
1.) Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to vermin exist.
2.) Evidence of roaches or live roaches present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
3.) Evidence of mice or live mice present in facility’s food and/or non-food areas.
On previous occasions the kosher pizza store scored as many as 60 violations (09/29/2005) and 49 (10/24/2005). In the past few months the owners, presumably with some encouragement from their landlord, the Seward Park Housing Corporation, have made an effort to clean up their act, but, apparently, not enough to satisfy the health authorities.
While two new pizza stores are opening right next to and across the street from Shalom Chai, it remains one of very few kosher restaurants in a neighborhood which once was synonymous with kosher food. We wish the owners success in getting the place up to code and running for the benefit of everyone down here.
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