But in 2009, the station was brought back to life when street artists PAC and Workhorse invited 103 peers from around the world to adorn the space with their own creations, mostly large murals painted directly onto the barren walls. When its construction was halted by World War II, it was left without tunnels or lighting, its stairwell and poured concrete walls unfinished. The exhibit was so popular that it stayed open permanently, morphing into a full-fledged museum that showcases the history and technology of the city’s public transportation.ĭate closed: 1946 Myrtle Avenue | Flickr/Wally Gobetzīeneath Williamsburg’s South 4th Street lies a six-track station that was once intended to be a major point of transfer for the IND Second System. The station reopened to the public for the first time on July 4, 1976, housing The New York City Transit Exhibit in honor of the United States Bicentennial.
In the 1960s, the station began to make its way into movies, most famously the 1974 thriller The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Due to its proximity to so many other Downtown Brooklyn stations and the fact that it was reachable only by transfer, it got little traffic and closed in 1946. The station opened in 1936, part of a plan in which local trains would operate within boroughs and express trains between them. To this day, vintage trains are moved into and out of the museum using the station’s tunnel and the outer tracks of the neighboring Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street stop. Unlike other decommissioned stations, Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn remains fully operational-thanks in part to its reincarnation as the New York Transit Museum.
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