Awards & Fellowships

 

2022 New York State Historic Preservation Award, Excellence in Historic Building Rehabilitation

2022 Lucy G. Moses Award, New York Landmarks Conservancy

2021 New York State Historic Preservation Award, Excellence in Historic Landscape Preservation

2021 Lucy G. Moses Award, New York Landmarks Conservancy

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

 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