This is the oldest coin I've found on the ground so far.

Behold I Will Send You Elijah The Prophet.. Malachi 4:5

I had a memory of walking by a house with similar gate ornaments at some point in the past. When I looked up my photo of that place, from 2014, I discovered to my surprise that the house in question is located just down the block! Comparing Street View images of that house and the one above, you can see that the metalwork for their gates and fencing is identical.

Just follow the Queens chrome.

According to a tag on the tree, this is a Vanderwolf's Pyramid pine. New street trees are typically planted in larger, rectangular pits, but this isn't a new pit. It was occupied for many years, and eventually filled to capacity, by a London plane tree.

The Cortina was produced from 1962 to 1982 by Ford of Britain, and it was the best-selling model in the UK for ten of those years: 1967, 1972-1975, and 1977-1981. In 1979, the Cortina had the best-selling year of any car in UK history.

In 1964, a number of top race-car drivers were invited to pilot Cortinas down the bobsled track at Cortina d'Ampezzo, the Italian resort that hosted the Winter Olympics in 1956. I found a couple of newspaper accounts of the event, and they make it sound like driving cars on bobsled courses, or "auto-bobbing", was a real thing people did. According to the papers, "Europe's latest and maddest winter sport" had originated earlier in the year, a product of "the Italian zest for excitement". But I can't find any evidence of auto-bobbing's existence outside of the articles about this one event, so I'm not convinced that the "sport" was anything more than a ridiculous one-time publicity stunt staged by Ford for the creation of this short promotional film.

Speaking of ridiculous, check out this 1969 Cortina ad (from South Africa, according to this website):

This defunct pedestrian push button and its accompanying sign date back to the days of the Department of Traffic.

BEWARE OF DOG BEWARE OF DOG BEWARE OF DOG NO PARKING NO PARKING NO PARKING

This annual festival for the local Indo-Caribbean (largely Guyanese) Hindu population is named after the Ramayana, an ancient Indian epic poem that tells the story of Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu. Ramayana in the Park features concerts and dance performances, as well as readings and explanations of the epic poem Ramcharitmanas, a 16th-century telling of the story of Rama, by a number of different pandits, or scholars. (The English word "pundit" comes from "pandit".) The festival is held on a lot owned by the Arya Spiritual Center, a Hindu temple in Briarwood located in the old Church of the Four Leaf Clover.