Famous kitchens, public records

205 East Houston Street, Manhattan

The most famous deli on earth serves thousands of pastrami sandwiches a day — and every one of those days is on the city's inspection ledger. Volume like this makes a clean record genuinely hard work.

score 0 · 1 open item · 3 OATH summonses on record · $XXX in penalties

178 Broadway, Brooklyn

Serving steak under the Williamsburg Bridge since 1887. A kitchen this old and this busy accumulates a real inspection history — the record shows how an institution manages it.

score 13 · 2 open items

127 Orchard Street, Manhattan

The sit-down arm of a century-old appetizing house. Smoked fish is unforgiving territory for temperature control — which is exactly what cycle inspections score.

score 11 · 4 open items · 6 OATH summonses on record · $X,XXX due · 3 defaults

150 West 57 Street, Manhattan

A gilded Midtown landmark feeding pre-theater crowds since 1927. White tablecloths don't exempt anyone from the points system.

score 32 · 8 open items · 11 OATH summonses on record · $XX,XXX due · 3 defaults

328 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan

Harlem's queen of soul food since 1962. Multi-generational, high-volume, and inspected on the same unannounced cadence as everyone else.

score 5 · 0 open items

1 Front Street, Brooklyn

The coal-oven pizzeria with the permanent line under the Brooklyn Bridge. Coal ovens, high turnover, tourist volume — the record shows what that combination takes to keep clean.

score 13 · 5 open items · 8 OATH summonses on record · $XXX due

1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn

A one-family Midwood legend where every pie got hand-finished for decades. Small kitchens carry the same obligations as big ones — the ledger doesn't scale down.

score 20 · 0 open items · 2 OATH summonses on record · $XX,XXX in penalties

32 Spring Street, Manhattan

America's first licensed pizzeria (1905). A hundred and twenty years of operation means a hundred and twenty years of someone keeping the record straight.

score 12 · 3 open items · 5 OATH summonses on record · $X,XXX due · 2 defaults