The New York City Board of Health voted Tuesday to rate cleanliness in the city’s more than 24,000 restaurants with publicly posted letter grades, adopting a controversial plan proposed 14 months ago by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

In a 6-to-2 vote, with one abstention, the board decided to compel restaurateurs to post inspectors’ numerical ratings, which were previously available only at the department or online at nyc.gov/health. And in a program that is to start in July, 8-by-10-inch placards, to be supplied by the city, will rate restaurants with a blue A for the highest grade (from 0 to 13 points under the old system), a green B for a less sanitary but still passing rating (13 to 27 points), and a yellow C for a failing grade (28 points or more).

The signs will be dated, and are to be prominently posted in windows or restaurant vestibules.

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