Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station

the station actually at Hoyt Street and Fulton Street

New York City Subway station in Brooklyn
The station was ceremonially opened by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia on April 9, 1936, with the station serving both Fulton Street Line local and express trains. From this station, northbound Fulton local trains were planned to continue to Court Street and terminate there. Express trains would turn north under Jay Street and continue to Manhattan via the Cranberry Street Tunnel. However, initial Fulton Street service ran entirely local at the time, as the line only ran to Rockaway Avenue. Without express service, local trains provided service to Manhattan via the express tracks at this station while the HH shuttle was instituted to serve Court Street and the local tracks/platforms.

On October 9, 1936, a public hearing was held to discuss the construction of a passageway between the station and the Loeser's Department Store on the north side of Livingston Street. In November 1937, the city Board of Transportation approved the construction of a 250 feet (76 m) passageway between the station and the department store. Due to low ridership, the Court Street station was closed and the shuttle was discontinued in 1946. All Fulton Street service was routed via the express tracks at this station to Jay Street – Borough Hall. This eliminated any use for the local tracks and they have been out of service since. The outer platforms were also closed until 1959, when the special service to Aqueduct Racetrack began. Service ran from the lower level of the 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station to the Aqueduct Racetrack station via the IND Eighth Avenue Line, Fulton Street Line, and IND Rockaway Line. and the outer platforms have since remained out of revenue service. for example, scenes for The Warriors and The Taking of Pelham 123 were shot there. After Michael Jackson died in 2009, New York City Council member Letitia James proposed to rename the station after Jackson, who had filmed the video for his song "Bad" there. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority rejected the idea. The MTA also declined to put a plaque in the station, saying its guidelines banned such an action. In 2018, the owner of a privately owned building above one of the station's entrances agreed to paint a mural dedicated to Jackson. As part of the construction of building at 209 Schermerhorn Street, developer Rose Associates built an elevator entrance, which opened in September 2018. The MTA announced in 2019 that the Hoyt–Schermerhorn Streets station would become ADA accessible as part of the agency's 2020–2024 Capital Program.