Awards & Fellowships
2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow, New York Public Library
2022 New York State Historic Preservation Award, Excellence in Historic Building Rehabilitation (T Building)
2022 Lucy G. Moses Award, New York Landmarks Conservancy (T Building)
2021 New York State Historic Preservation Award, Excellence in Historic Landscape Preservation (Wethersfield Farm Historic District)
2021 Lucy G. Moses Award, New York Landmarks Conservancy (Nine Orchard)
2020 Gill Family Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians
2019-2023 Overseas Research Scholarship, UCL
2019-2023 Graduate Research Scholarship, UCL
2017 New York State Council on the Arts Independent Project Grant
2016-2017 Visiting Scholar, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU
2010 New York State Historic Preservation Award, Outstanding National Register Nomination
2003 ICOMOS International Fellowship
Press
Video
Poy Gum Lee: Chinatown’s Unsung Architect | SinoVision English Channel Archives
The Bowery: A Bounty of History | Vijai Singh | New York Times Video | April 17, 2013
Print/onlinE
Anger in Chinatown Over a Huge Jail Project: ‘We Are the Dumping Ground’ | Stefanos Chen & Mabel Chan | The New York Times | April 1, 2024
New York is Building the World’s Tallest Jail. Can Anyone Stop It? | Wilfred Chan | The Guardian | August 21, 2023
Chinatown, Resilient and Proud | Michael Kimmelman | The New York Times | December 2, 2020
Il “Lung Block” di NY: quando gli immigrati “che portano la tubercolosi” eravamo noi | Giulia Pozzi | La Voce di New York | June 1, 2019
The Lower East Side’s forgotten Lung Block: The Italian community lost to ‘slum clearance’ | Lucie Levine | 6sqft | April 25, 2019
Exhibition Uncovers Forgotten Italian Community in “Lung Block” | Traven Rice | The Lo-Down | April 24, 2019
The Architect Who Melded Tradition and Modernism in New York's Chinatown | Kate Prengel | Hyperallergic | March 2, 2016
A More Resilient Neighborhood, Just Beyond the Grid | Aaron Reiss | Urban Omnibus | The Architectural League | December 17, 2014
Awakening the Bowery’s Ghosts | Emily S. Rueb | New York Times | February 12, 2016
The Architect Poy Gum Lee Finally Has a Retrospective | Eve M. Kahn | New York Times | September 10, 2015
Behind the Facades, a Seedy Past Endures | Sam Roberts | New York Times | April 17, 2013
Staving Off Change to the Grit of the Bowery | Joseph Berger | New York Times | October 9, 2011
Preservationists Focus on a Little Brick House | Suzanna Rozdeba | New York Times | February 18, 2011
AFFILIATIONS
Panelist, Design Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, 2024
Panelist, Architecture + Design, New York State Council on the Arts, 2022-2023
Board Member, Think!Chinatown, 2019-
Advisor, Historic District Council, 2018-
Board Member, Historic Districts Council, 2012-2018
Trustee, The Conway School, 2011-2013