Police Officer Is Shot in the Face At a Brooklyn Housing Project A plainclothes New York City police officer was shot in the face at about 9 p.m. Tuesday while pursuing a man at a Brooklyn housing project, the authorities said. His injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, but his precise condition was not immediately known, a police spokesman said. The officer, whose name was not immediately released, was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center. The police were still looking for at least one gunman after 11 p.m. The shooting occurred near 370 Bushwick Avenue, on the first floor of a building in the Bushwick Houses project in the 90th Precinct. The officer and his partner pursued the man in response to a report of a man with a gun, the police said. It "does not appear" officers returned fire, the police said. Around 10 p.m., officers could be seen entering one building. Police dogs were also present. Residents said that officers had distributed a photo of a suspect and asked if anyone recognized him. Thomas Tavares, 52, who said he had lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years, said the area had recently enjoyed a period of relative calm. "It used to be really bad - lot of drugs, lot of murders, lot of crime," he said. "Things were actually calm around here," he said as he stood in front of a deli and faced the crime scene, still teeming with officers. Gabriel Jones, 46, said he grew up in the project, but moved more than 10 years ago because of safety concerns. He now lives a few blocks north, he said. "It's known for muggings, killings, stickups," said Mr. Jones, who happened upon the scene while walking his pit bull. I got stuck up here three times myself. The episode, he said, proved that little had changed. "It's sad," he said, "but it's not a surprise." Al Baker, Joseph Goldstein and Stacey Stowe contributed reporting.