Joe Fuoco Music Center
Joe Fuoco was a music prodigy who — while still a senior in high school in 1973 — opened his first music center in Ridgewood, Queens. By 1982, he settled into its current home on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, where music lovers can to this day buy instruments and learn how to play them. Fuoco and his wife Jeanette even offer scholarships to local kids who have musical aspirations. Music may be the currency inside, but outside, on the glorious storefront, it's pure poetry.