Brooklyn punks/folk rockers/jammers/whatever-ers The Men played a free hometown show earlier this month for Union Pool’s Summer Thunder series and they’ve got more dates coming up, including another free summer show in Brooklyn.

The viewing for Eric Garner, the man who died in Tompkinsville during an arrest, will be Wednesday from 2 to 6:45 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

At a recent barbecue in Brooklyn, N.Y., a half-dozen guys who resist that particular cultural stereotype gathered together.

From the scanner — an hour of mayhem, mostly petty, some sad: * At roughly 1 a.m. in Brooklyn, police were were called to round up 4 male blacks in a hallway smoking marijuana at 1284 St. Johns Place.

Police investigate the scene on Boylston Street where a human head was found in the yard of a Hempstead village home on Thursday, July 17, 2014.

Earlier this month, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act was celebrated.

The white flags – international symbols of surrender – fluttered Tuesday from poles on the stone supports that hold cables above the bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Community leaders are outraged after learning several Muslims said they were harassed by a group of young men in a car outside the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge Sunday morning as they were on their way to worship.

Half mast: Police closed the bridge to pedestrians around 11:30 am as police officers scaled the span’s cables and pulled down the unauthorized flags.

While Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Rome this week — trying to persuade Pope Francis to bring his message of income equality to New York — all hell broke loose when someone planted white flags atop the twin pillars of the Brooklyn Bridge.