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A Brooklyn politician says she’s found a way to get a “Thriller” of a tribute to Michael Jackson inside the subway station immortalized in his “Bad” video.

Councilwoman Letitia James told the Post yesterday that she hopes to work with the MTA to commission an art contest honoring Jackson at the bustling Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, which is where the late King of Pop filmed his famous Martin Scorsese-directed “Bad” video in 1987.

“I think it would be a big tourist draw for the cash-strapped transit authority,” said James (D-Brooklyn), adding there are already art displays throughout the transit system so the precedent exists.

However, as with her previous attempts to honor the Gloved One, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was not too receptive.

MTA spokesman Aaron Donavan said the agency only adds new artwork to stations that are also undergoing rehabilitation projects and “because of more pressing needs elsewhere in the system, Hoyt-Schermerhorn isn’t scheduled to be rehabilitated” for at least five years.

As the Post reported last week, the MTA told James to “Beat It” when she proposed renaming the station or hanging a plaque there in Jackson’s honor shortly after his June 25 death.

The MTA prohibits plaques at stations and none of its stations are named after individuals – although the agency earlier this year agreed to its first-ever naming rights deal. Developer Bruce Ratner is set to pay the MTA $200,000 a year over 20 years to add the name of his planned Barclays Center NBA arena to the Atlantic Avenue transit hub in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

The acclaimed 16-minute Scorsese-Jackson video is more of a short film and also features a young Wesley Snipes in one of his early acting roles before he became a Hollywood star.

In the “Bad” video, Jackson plays a boy named Daryl who returns from private school to his “gangsta”-ridden neighborhood and takes friends — led by Snipes’ character — to the subway station to show he’s still “Bad.”

All of the music scenes were filmed at the station, which serves the A, C and G lines.

rich.calder@nypost.com