Its fruit looks like a cross between an Easter egg, a grape, and a potato, and it's coming to get you!
This happens sometimes in Staten Island. You can get a better sense of things from this aerial photo.
Just off one of Staten Island's amazing Greenbelt trails.
Nope, it's just the Shabbat alarm that blares from somewhere within Hasidic South Williamsburg twice every Friday evening. It's pretty obnoxiously loud, but apparently "any organ, bell, chimes or other similar instrument" located on or within a house of worship is exempt from the city's noise code.