An NYPD traffic agent is recovering after a driver, who was unhappy with a parking ticket, struck him in the face on Wednesday in Brooklyn, police said. The attack happened near Avenue U and East 8th Street in Sheepshead Bay around 9:30 a.

An NYPD traffic enforcement agent was attacked on the street while working in Brooklyn on Wednesday by a man the agent had recently ticketed for a parking violation — and the suspect fled the scene in his car — police said on Thursday.

An on-duty NYPD traffic agent was assaulted after he gave out a summons to a vehicle in Brooklyn on Wednesday, according to authorities. It happened near Avenue U and East 8th Street around 9:30 a.m.