NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

Jay, a senior historian at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission for 35 years before retiring, wrote the agency’s first-ever designation reports to include LGBTQ history, in the early 1990s. He later authored “Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective” in the National Park Service’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History (2016), recipient of a 2018 Vernacular Architecture Forum award. In 2011, Jay was the crea

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Jay, a senior historian at the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission for 35 years before retiring, wrote the agency’s first-ever designation reports to include LGBTQ history, in the early 1990s. He later authored “Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective” in the National Park Service’s LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History (2016), recipient of a 2018 Vernacular Architecture Forum award. In 2011, Jay was the crea

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