[3] Quiñones rose to prominence by creating massive New York City subway car graffiti that carried his moniker "LEE".
Quiñones was born at Ponce, Puerto Rico,[1] and raised in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan.
He was the major contributor to one of the first-ever whole-trains, along with DOC, MONO and SLAVE, the core members of The Fabulous Five crew, which also included DIRTY SLUG.
[4] In November 1976, ten subway cars were painted with a range of colorful murals and set a new benchmark for the scale of graffiti works.
Susan Seidelman's 1982 film Smithereens prominently featured a van with exterior designs painted by Quiñones.
[15] He is featured in the documentary Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
[18] His work was featured in the exhibition Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from October 2020 to July 2021.