A man is lucky be alive after being shot in the face on Saturday afternoon in Clinton Hill.

Police say that a man suspected of not paying the subway fare did not follow instructions and threatened officers with a knife.

The New York City Police Department responded to shots fired at an L train subway station in Brownsville, Brooklyn on Sunday.

The Brooklyn subway fare evasion suspect armed with a knife was within seven feet of police when two NYPD cops shot him, wounding one of the officers and two bystanders with friendly fire, a police official said Monday.

Four people were injured Sunday afternoon at a Brooklyn subway stop in what started as officers’ attempts to apprehend a man accused of skipping the station turnstile.

The officers opened fire on an alleged subway fare evader who brandished a knife, police said. The only bullets fired appeared to have been by the officers, according to the chief of department.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his new Interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon held a briefing Sunday night about an officer who was wounded in a shooting at Brooklyn subway station.