BROOKLYN

* A man was arrested for gunning down two men behind a Brownsville building last week, authorities said yesterday.

Eugene Maxwell Jr., 28, was busted Thursday in the shooting of a 43-year-old and a 20-year-old in back of 173 Lott Ave. at 1:21 p.m. on Aug. 24, cops said.

Both men were rushed to Brookdale Hospital after the gunfire ended. Maxwell and his yet-to-be-apprehended accomplice fled after the violence.

The older man was treated for a gunshot wound in his left leg and has since been released.

The younger man, who suffered a gunshot wound in the neck, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Maxwell is charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession.

* Police are investigating the murder of a 56-year-old man in his Brownsville home.

The man, whose name is being withheld pending family notification, was found with multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso inside his second floor apartment at 1549 Eastern Parkway by his landlord at 3:04 p.m. Thursday, cops said. Cops have no known suspects or motive for the slaying.

* A 66-year-old motorcyclist died after rear-ending a car turning into a Sheepshead Bay sanitation garage, cops said.

The biker, whose name was withheld pending family notification, slammed his 1999 Suzuki into a 1989 Oldsmobile as it made a left turn on Knapp Street between Avenues X and Y at 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, police said.

The 33-year-old man behind the wheel of the Oldsmobile called 911 after the crash and remained on the scene. The motorcyclist was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 20 minutes later. The driver did not receive a summons.

* Cops are looking for a vandal who scrawled racially offensive graffiti on the wall of a Baptist church in Flatbush.

The scrawl was discovered on the Kenilworth Baptist Church, at Kenilworth Place, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.

Authorities have no suspects in the case and are investigating it as a likely bias crime.

* A 34-year-old livery driver from Pennsylvania was shot dead after meeting two men outside an East New York building early yesterday, police said.

James Pierre, of East Stratford, Pa., was fatally injured in front of 303 Louisiana Ave. at 4:34 a.m., cops said.

According to police sources, Pierre parked his livery cab on Louisiana Avenue and walked up the block, where he got into a dark-colored Saturn with two well-dressed men.

After a few minutes, the three got out of the vehicle and one of the men pumped a bullet into Pierre’s head.

Pierre was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The suspect fled in the Saturn.

STATEN ISLAND

* A pistol-packing robber stuck up a Port Richmond bank, police said yesterday.

Armed with a handgun, the thief entered a Washington Mutual branch at 1317 Forest Ave. at 1:20 p.m. Thursday, cops said.

He demanded that a teller give him money and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash, which included a dye pack, authorities said.

MANHATTAN

* A note-passing thief held up an Upper East Side bank, police said yesterday.

The robber walked into a Chase branch at 181 E. 90th St. at 3:43 p.m. Thursday and slipped a teller a note demanding cash, cops said.

He was given an undisclosed amount of money and fled on foot.

* A wacky would-be robber was nabbed outside a Midtown bank carrying a box of chocolates with wires protruding from it to make it look like a bomb, authorities said yesterday.

John Gordon Sennett, 40, of Boston, was sitting on a bench across from a Chase branch at 345 Park Ave. when he was arrested around 5 p.m. on Thursday, cops said.

According to police, a concerned woman spotted Sennett and called 911. When officers approached him, he opened up his box of treats and said, “You got me!” and admitted his intention to rob the bank across the street.

Sennett is charged with attempted robbery and weapons possession.

THE BRONX

* An Irish tourist was struck and killed by a car last night after attending a wedding, police said.

Martin Duffy, 49, was killed instantly at the intersection of 256th Street and Broadway in Riverdale at about 6 p.m.

The driver of the car remained at the scene and was not immediately issued any summonses, police said.

Duffy had just left an area apartment and was returning to a Hyatt Hotel in Yonkers when he was struck. (lcf)

* A man and a woman were shot and wounded yesterday morning in Norwood at a suspected drug location, police sources said.

The victims, a 28-year- old woman and a 24- year-old man, were inside 345 E. 209th St. when shots rang out just after 8 a.m., police said.

The woman was hit several times and taken to Montefiore Medical Center in serious condition, where it was unclear if she would survive, sources said.

The man was wounded in the upper torso and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital.