<P> The film is often cited as containing one of the greatest car chase sequences in movie history . The chase involves Popeye commandeering a civilian 's car ( a 1971 Pontiac LeMans ) and then frantically chasing an elevated train , on which a hitman is trying to escape . The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn roughly running under the BMT West End Line ( currently the D train , then the B train ) which runs on an elevated track above Stillwell Avenue , 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn , with the chase ending just north of the 62nd Street station . At that point , the train hits a train stop , but is going too fast to stop in time and collides with the train ahead of it , which has just left the station . </P>
<P> The film is often cited as containing one of the greatest car chase sequences in movie history . The chase involves Popeye commandeering a civilian 's car ( a 1971 Pontiac LeMans ) and then frantically chasing an elevated train , on which a hitman is trying to escape . The scene was filmed in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn roughly running under the BMT West End Line ( currently the D train , then the B train ) which runs on an elevated track above Stillwell Avenue , 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn , with the chase ending just north of the 62nd Street station . At that point , the train hits a train stop , but is going too fast to stop in time and collides with the train ahead of it , which has just left the station . </P>
where was the french connection car chase filmed
where was the french connection car chase filmed
in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn roughly running under the BMT West End Line ( currently the D train , then the B train ) which runs on an elevated track above Stillwell Avenue , 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn , with the chase ending just north of the 62nd Street station .
in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn roughly running under the BMT West End Line ( currently the D train , then the B train ) which runs on an elevated track above Stillwell Avenue , 86th Street and New Utrecht Avenue in Brooklyn , with the chase ending just north of the 62nd Street station .