Pick A Bagel

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• address1475 2 Avenue, Manhattan 10075
• cuisineBakery Products/Desserts
• phone2127174668

Is Pick A Bagel clean?

Pick A Bagel is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 17, 2026. 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 Pick A Bagel?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
• ❓questionable food sourcingcritical
  Unclean or cracked whole eggs or unpasteurized liquid, frozen or powdered eggs kept or used.

When was Pick A Bagel last inspected?

Pick A Bagel has 6 inspections on record going back to February 3, 2023, averaging 17 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Pick A Bagel vs Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island runs 80% clean across 330 tracked restaurants — 234 clean, 16 mid, 43 cooked.

Against the 330 spots Cooked tracks in Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, 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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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 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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