On the second floor, there's a many-windowed classroom that hovers at tree level above Seventh, with a fantastic view of the Young Turks with loosened neckties getting carded at the door of the historic saloon McSorley's, whose legend is painted on the front: "We were here before you were born".
One is Divine Styler, a Brooklyn-born LA transplant, whose legend is still very much alive, yet whose renown in hip-hop – with a catalogue that amounts to just three albums and a handful of singles and guest appearances in 25 years – seems to have been defined more by his absence than his presence.
Stagger Lee was a folk song about a 1985 gambling-related murder by Stagger Lee Shelton, a figure whose legend was as the archetypal tough, cool black man who disdains white authority.
The Story Of Stax (Weekdays, 10pm, Radio 2) about a label whose legend was built on the ears of people such as Isaac Hayes and David Porter, a legend that hinged on their ability to recognise the difference between the magical and the workaday and resulted in jewels such as Private Number by Judy Clay and William Bell.
After listening to local musicians play half an hour of Malavita songs, a man introduced as a 76-year-old former Mafia don (whose legend was added to when he was reputed to be the only one to escape a recent police raid in which dozens of others with Mafia links were arrested) agreed to an interview via interpreter, on condition of anonymity.
It's a threat to romanticized scouts whose legends are built on a 5percentt success rate.
Despite Georgia's Byzantine-leaning culture, the country's intimate trade connection with the Middle East is evidenced on contemporary Georgian coinage, whose legends were composed in Georgian and Arabic.
For YA author Marie Lu, whose "Legend" trilogy is a bestseller, the festival is a multigenerational experience.
Kitman, however, wants to turn him into a towering figure in some ways reminiscent of Edward R. Murrow, whose legend, we are told, was built on the "opinionated positions he took in his news reports".
For example, Omolú, the god of smallpox, is identified with St. Lazarus, whose body, in Christian legend, is pocked with sores and who heals diseases of the skin.
Where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame generally advertises using the names of stars whose legends can be felt inside, the Experience Music Project tries to reach deeper into the psyche, explaining on billboards that it is a museum for people who sing in the shower or drum on their car steering wheels.
