Post

• gradeGrade pending
• grade postedAugust 22, 2025
• inspection score41 pts
• critical violations5
• last inspectedAugust 5, 2026 →
• address217 East 3 Street, Manhattan 10009
• cuisineAmerican
• phone9172612613

Is Post clean?

New York currently lists Post as grade pending, following an inspection on August 5, 2026 that scored 41 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it. The last grade it ever posted here was C on August 22, 2025.

What did inspectors find at Post?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️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.
• 🐀rats have moved incritical
  Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🕳️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.
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

When was Post last inspected?

Post has 5 inspections on record going back to September 19, 2023, averaging 30 points.

Post vs Lower East Side

Lower East Side runs 75% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 8 mid, 33 cooked.

Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Lower East Side, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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.

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 August 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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