For many a New Yorker, the Hoyt-Schermerhorn stop is an inconspicuous, seemingly incomplete, and borderline unpronounceable part of their respective commutes. Starting this week, though, locals will get a chance to see the Downtown Brooklyn station as more than a cavernous, half-open backdrop to their subway transfers.
In celebration of Hoyt-Schermerhorn’s 90th year in service, Brooklyn Academy of Music is bringing the station to the big screen with a film festival, featuring movies with scenes shot in, at, or around its platforms. The aptly titled bloc of programming is called “Hoyt-Schermerhorn: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors,” and it includes screenings of the first (and far better than it ever should have been) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, comedy classics like Coming To America, action-in-transit flicks like Taking of Pelham 123 and The Warriors, and plenty of other repertory titles that, according to Gothamist, took advantage of a 1946 service change that decommisioned two lines, and opened its tracks to clever and ambitious filmmakers in need of a gritty, maleable subway atmosphere for their projects.
The festival begins on April 9—the 90th-anniversary proper of the station’s opening—with showings of Eddie Murphy’s screenwriting debut (which dresses Hoyt-Schermerhorn up as the Sutphin stop in Queens for its iconic running in the rain scene), and concludes on April 16. You can see the full slate of films and buy tickets for each screening via BAM today.
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