Above Sunset Park, the head of a brilliant sun, its body everywhere. Inside the park, the head of a dog, its body nowhere.

Fariz Ahmemulic, a Bronx Parks Dept. worker, insisted his prank was funny. His coworker, eyeing the black doll in a noose, insisted no.

Twitter, a tool for providing updates on births, meals, weather, and shootings. Two Brownsville gangs, busted for Tweeting the latter.

Paul Manza, of Manhattan, starring in a film about Brooklyn hipsters illegally shooting deer, has been charged with illegally shooting deer.

Through a cloudless, beautiful sky in Manhattan, two planes flew, first here, then there.

Fatherhood will one day set in for Eryk Ford, 19, just not with Aniyah, 6 weeks, whom he shook too hard.

On the Broome Street construction scaffolding, Adrien Zamora, of Ditmas Park, lost first his footing, then his life.

Along a Long Island City median, new hawthorn trees have replaced dead hawthorn trees.

A mallard of Central Park, its tongue and bill removed by a dog, was put, finally, to sleep.

On a playground in Bushwick, a boy, surrounded first by friends, then by strangers, found his chest sliced open, then his head as well.

In Williamsburg, the bullet, a stray; the survivor, a ten-year-old boy.

From a Prospect Park tree, a man in his thirties, hanging. No note.

Crossing the tracks at Lexington and 77th Street, a young man, wanting the northbound 6, did not reach the other side.

Death was given to Ramarley Graham, 18, of Wakefield; to his two shooters, desk duty.

Unidentified in Woodhaven: the woman who was shoved; the three men who did the shoving; the car into which she was shoved.

Sewage water gathers on the G train's Broadway track: a New York City wishing well.

With marijuana found in his pocket by colleagues, Shanti Fyall, an NYPD custodial assistant in Rockaway Beach, has resigned.

In the South Bronx, a mother and son, Yanick Branch, 34, and Justin Branch, 10, became abductor and abductee.

Breathing in carbon monoxide, Queens father and son, Kuo-Kuang Chen and Aaron Chen, 66 and 29, are survived by their dog.

At an intersection in Jamaica, Queens, Todd Thelwell, 19, caused a driver's lung to collapse. Bullet.