House Sparrow and Fish Crows

I was meditating, but I heard a weird bird I'd never heard before, so I downloaded BirdNET. It didn't pick up the bird I was hearing, but it did identify House Sparrow: "It is extensively, and usually unsuccessfully, persecuted as an agricultural pest. It has also often been kept as a pet, as well as being a food item and a symbol of lust, sexual potency, commonness, and vulgarity."

Reading a comparison query on Reddit, and it turns out BirdNet and Merlin Bird ID were both developed at Cornell. 

I've seen crows and pigeons, even saw a hawk flying around with another bird in its talons while it waited for the bird to quit trying to get away. 

Just googled whether a grackle was a crow, and it's not and both are found in NYC. 

I hear the chirp chirp chirp of house sparrows, and the caw caw caw of Fish Crows, according to Merlin Bird ID.