citylikeyou — L&B Spumoni Gardens — New York by Joan Wong

New York / Restaurant

Best sicilian slices in all of Brooklyn. Tasty creamsicle as well.

Website
spumonigardens.com

Address
L&B Spumoni Gardens, 2725 86th Street, New York, United States

Visual Artist Designer Illustrator

Current city: New York

joan-wong.com

Joan Wong is a designer that creates visual responses to narratives. She has designed book covers for Penguin, Random House, Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar Straus and Giroux, New Directions, Simon and Schuster, and Harper Collins. She is also a frequent collaborator with the New York Times, creating spot illustrations for their articles. In 2018, she curated and illustrated a collection of online stories about “lives that could have been” called “Sister Life.”

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