Michael’s mural adorns a Brooklyn underpass

A local development and progress partnership in Brooklyn, New York says it has completed a contract to install an artistic mural of the King of Pop on the walls of Brooklyn underpasses. The mural will be installed at the entrance of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station and features one of Michael’s famous video moments from "Bad," which was directed by Martin Scorsese in 1987. A spokesperson for the partnership says: "This is an incredible opportunity for the Hoyt-Schermenrhorn subway station to play a role in American music culture and also become a tourist attraction." The spark for this partnership project began last September with a request from LaTisha James, a member of the U.S. Congress. She had proposed that the Hoyt-Schermenrhorn station be named after Michael and that a plaque be installed there in his honor. But because naming stations after individuals conflicts with city transportation law, the proposal was rejected. Now, instead, a mural of Michael will be installed at this station. James, expressing her happiness about this, says: "When I took action for this project, hundreds of letters and emails from people all over the world were sent to me asking me not to give up because they wanted to come to Brooklyn to pay tribute to Michael Jackson. The project moved forward on its own." In the 16-minute video Bad, which is more like a short film, Michael plays a boy named "Darryl" who returns from a private school to his gangster neighborhood. He takes his old friends—led by "Wesley Snipes"—to the subway station to show them that he’s still "bad" (Bad). All the scenes in this segment of the video clip were filmed in the Brooklyn subway. In this film, Wesley Snipes, a Black actor, plays one of his earliest roles before becoming a Hollywood star. Source: eMJey / NY Post