A livery cab driver and father of five is lucky to be alive after a gun-wielding passenger opened fire – grazing his face – in a terrifying stick-up in Brooklyn Monday, cops and sources said.

Cabbie Prince Ezenekwe, 54 – who works for the local Bee Bee Car Service – found himself looking down the barrel of his crazed passenger’s gun at the intersection of East 101st Street and Flatlands Avenue in Canarsie around 1:30 a.m., according to authorities and sources.

“This is a miracle,” a bandaged Ezenekwe told reporters at a news conference Monday afternoon. “I am not supposed to be alive.

“It was so scary,” he added at the conference, held at the Bronx headquarters of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. “I have seen this kind of thing in the movies but I haven’t seen it up close.”

The armed, ski mask-wearing passenger initially started a commotion when he demanded that Ezenekwe take him back to his drop-off spot, claiming he’d forgotten something, the cabbie said.

But Ezenekwe had barely made it off the block — and the surrounding streets were all one way — so he urged his rider to walk back and grab his belongings while he waited.

That’s when the furious fare started spewing insults at Ezenekwe – which he ignored – until he was threatened, the Nigerian immigrant said.

“I didn’t pay him no mind until he said, ‘Don’t let me kill you here,’” the 23-year driver recalled.

“Then he opened the car, stepped out of the car, the door was still open, and he said again ‘I will have to kill you,’ ‘give me everything you have.’”

As the gunman pointed his weapon at Ezenekwe from the rear passenger side, the driver hit the gas – a split-second decision that might have saved his life.

“He fired the gun once, but the car moved so fast. Because the car shifted, my head also shifted, so he missed the target,” said the US citizen who has lived in New York City for more than 25 years.  

A bullet grazed his right cheek, nearly nicking a critical artery, sources said.

The courageous cabbie drove himself to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition. The brazen gunman, meanwhile, remains at-large.

“I’m the luckiest man alive. I’m the luckiest man alive,” said Ezenekwe, who supports his wife and five children living in Nigeria. “So I can’t complain.”

Ezenekwe said the gunman covered his face so only his eyes were showing.

New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers spokesman Fernando Mateo urged livery drivers during the press conference not to let mask-wearing passengers in their cars even if it means risking a fine or suspension.

“The TLC tells the drivers ‘you’ve got to pick them up, otherwise it may be discrimination,’” Mateo said. “You know what? Let it be discrimination if it’s going to save your life.”

Cops described the suspect as a man with dark complexion and believed to be in 20s.

“Enough is enough,” Steven Rivera, the federation’s president, said in a statement. “No taxi or livery driver should be hunted down like prey while simply doing their job. This is attempted murder.”

Rivera called on Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez to not show leniency on the suspect once he’s apprehended.

The advocacy organization is promising a $5,000 reward to anyone who offers information leading to an arrest.

TLC Commissioner David Do called on anyone with information related to the attempted robbery to contact the NYPD and help make the “city a safer place.”

Those convicted of assaulting Taxi & Limousine Commission drivers can face up to 25 years behind bars.

“The city’s for-hire drivers are out there day and night, getting us home safe,” Do said in a statement. “Predators who take advantage of their availability to commit crimes against them should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”