-TWO MINOR CHANGES AT CORLEAR GARDENS-

The name and address of the building were put on above the lobby entrance doors, and just the address was put on above the basement entrance door where the OP laundry room was at. All three electric gates at Corlear Gardens were to consist of new stop signs after the previous ones were vandalized and faded to white. A suburban home next to the upper parking lot at Tibbett Towers was in the process of being demolished.

-DESCRIBING MORE OF THE ELEVATOR INTERIOR AT TIBBETT TOWERS-

The elevators at Tibbett Towers were in residential service as usual, despite the fact that the left was even and the right was odd. All elevators consist of a digital indicator above the inner doors, separated from the button panels.

The phones on all four are also separated from the panels. The button panels themselves consisted of an area to put a paper note. Inside that built-in area was a paper note indicating that the inspection certificate is located in the management office. The note wasn’t specific enough. In building B was a boiler room in the basement and a management office in the lobby.

Building A does not consist of those two rooms. All four elevators also consisted of a small note, which was requested only 4 people to be in the elevators. The elevator walls and doors were dark and light brown, in the form of checker squares. There is also a digital indicator above the elevator outer doors in the lobbies of Tibbett Towers. Nowhere else. This could result in impatience on residential floors and the basement.

There are arrows that light up when the elevators move. The arrow lights are located above where the elevator buttons were. There were no lights on the buttons themselves. Consider that a big help.

In the basement above the elevator outer doors in said building were a guide to which floors the elevators go to. “ODD FLOORS B-M-1-3-5-7-9-11”, “EVEN FLOORS B-M-2-4-6-8-10-12”. M means to lobby. The word ”‘ODD FLOORS” is not seen on building A. While Corlear Gardens is a 21-story building and Nathan Hale Gardens is a 22-story, Tibbett Towers is a 12-story building. My mother’s friend also lives in a building with even and odd floor elevators. That building is 13 stories, consisting of a basement and ground floor. And the only way to get there is the right side odd floor elevator there.

-MODERNIZATION IN PROGRESS.-

On August 26th, the left side elevator was to be disabled. I thought they would just change the buttons, like in Nathan Hale Gardens. Every time I would come back home from school, there would be ambient drilling noises. The interior on the left side elevator was fully gone. All that was there was just a shaft light. The outer doors of the left side elevator remain. On floor 6, the elevator outer door window was messy. As we transition into October, a button panel was drilled in.

One of the mirrors was taken down in the lobby where the elevators were to make room for the new button panel. Big holes were drilled in all walls where the elevators were to make room for the new button panel. Weeks later, they drilled a huge hole the size of an elevator outer door to put the actual elevator outer door in. The outer door and frames were not brown. They were purple.

All pre-existing elevator outer doors on all even floors were replaced with new ones. This occurred in the lobby and basement as well. As the modernization went on, the maximum number of people inside the elevators was no more than four. That rule was not followed on the right side elevator, as it still goes to odd floors. Presumably, seven residents went into the elevator.

Half of them could be living on even floors. Another week later after putting new elevator outer doors on all floors, the elevator was turned on, but it wasn’t in residential service. It was blinking “O.S” Meaning it was out of service. Little would I know that until later on when the left side elevator was fully in residential service. I pressed a button on the new panel, and a blue light lit up. I was excited to anticipate the refurbished elevator In October during the modernization.

In November 2017, I rode the left-side elevator in its brand-new condition. The walls were purple, the ceiling was different, and the new inner door had no window. The left elevator’s bell shares the same dinging noise as the left elevator on the left side of Nathan Hale Gardens. There was a customized lobby button consisting of two lights. The lights on all of the elevator floor and call buttons were blue, while in Nathan Hale Gardens were yellow.

In Corlear Gardens, the elevator call button lights were yellow, and the elevator floor button lights were beige. During this time at Tibbett Towers, there were chairs in the hallways, so we could sit down and sit for the only elevator available. Days after the refurbishment of the left elevator, handlebars were added, and the right elevator was already in progress with being modernized. A special key was put on the left side elevator.

It consisted of Up, Down, Normal, and Off. A note was also put on describing what “I.N” and “O.S” meant. While I was going down with my grandma to Corlear Gardens, the elevator stopped at four for some residents and refused to go down. The door kept opening, and the elevator indicator decided to put an end to this game that the door itself was playing. Nudge mode was activated, and the elevator made a loud shrill beep. The Indicator was blinking “N.D” for nudge mode, just like at Corlear Gardens.

Except the elevators at Corlear Gardens made a loud buzzing noise when nudge mode was activated. Both elevators in both buildings as of 2018 consist of indicators blinking two letters for certain modes. Except at Corlear Gardens, the elevator indicators DO NOT blink “O.S.” For out of service. New braille number plates were added on both elevator door frames when adding and replacing the pre-existing elevator outer doors with new ones were fully done. 

-MINOR CHANGES AT CORLEAR GARDENS AND TIBBETT TOWERS-

As of September or October of 2016, the scaffolding returns to both sections of Tibbett Towers. The scaffolding on Tibbett Towers building A remained there until June 2017. The scaffolding on Building B just remained there for the rest of 2017. Just like Corlear Gardens, at Tibbett Towers, some lights outside and inside the lobby turn on and turn off in a group. For Tibbett Towers, that was about to change. The outdoor lighting in building A consisted of two white squares and a yellow circle. On building B was a pair of yellow circles and white squares, in the form of a pattern; square, circle, square, circle.

As I said, most of the outdoor lighting at Tibbett Towers was yellow. When I came back from school, I saw some guys working on the lights. I didn’t understand what was going on until it was nighttime. Usually, when I would look out the window, I would see yellow lighting. However, that night, I saw white lighting. I didn’t even know what happened or what was even going on. I went outside with Grandma to the playground at Corlear Gardens, and saw that there was all-new outdoor lighting outside Tibbett Towers!

I didn’t expect new lighting! In Corlear Gardens were different floor number plates on the residential floors. The old ones had a different font and the new ones’ font looks more squished. I was visiting my grandma’s friend on 7B at Corlear Gardens at that time. I rode the elevator to get to 20 and then to 7. Because that was Grandma’s mission. From there, I saw the minor changes on not only the residential floors but the basement as well.

There was a women’s and a men’s bathroom. The women’s one said “ladies” and the men one said “gentlemen” when I actually lived there. As of November 2017, all of that was changed. “Up” on the bells no longer light up on both elevators at Corlear Gardens. New lights for the stairwells and basements at Tibbett Towers were also installed during the installation of the outdoor lighting.

-A SHORT PAUSE ON ELEVATOR MODERNIZATIONS IN BUILDING B-

It is January 2018 and both elevators in building A at Tibbett Towers were modernized. The bell on the right side elevator does not ring. In building B, the other pair of elevators were left alone at that time. In November 2017, after I and my mother were done with some errands, we parked at Tibbett Towers building B and (tried to) go down on the right-side elevator. When the door opened at the lobby, I pressed “basement.” As soon as the door closed, the elevator moved down a bit, but it went back up and the door opened back up. This kept going on, so we had to take the left one instead, to head back to Tibbett Towers building A, where we really reside. In January 2018 at building B, I would expect this behavior from the right side elevator again when going inside it. The elevator did this behavior again.

Then, my mother had us exit the elevator, and what I saw after the elevator door closed was that it only moves when no one is inside it! There was also a yellow shaft light above that elevator as well. When February came around, it was time for modernization progress to start on the right side elevator on building B. There was a hole in the lobby wall where the mirror was. The hole was obviously for the new call button panel. Later this February, the scaffolding was officially gone on building B. The pre-existing doors were already replaced on the right side elevator, and in March, later on, the right side elevator was officially in residential service. It consists of a different bell ding. The left side elevator was left alone for a few weeks.

Me, my mother and my grandma took the time to ride both the modernized right-side elevator and the original left-side elevator at Tibbett Towers on building B for this time. When the final week of March came around, the pitch right side elevator bell’s ding was raised by a half. The left-side elevator was also available for one last time. The left side elevator was officially in progress with being modernized on the final days of March. During this time, the right side elevator consisted of beeping door sensors, just like in both elevators at Corlear Gardens. The right-side elevator at Tibbett Towers Building B also consisted of padding during the process if I remember correctly.

On April 2018, I rode the elevators at Nathan Hale Gardens on both sides, Corlear Gardens, and all elevators at Tibbett Towers that were modernized so far. Half of them were for occasional needs, (TT Building A, NHG Right side), and most of them were for a ride on the elevators (NHG Left side, TT Building B, Corlear Gardens.) During February, I rode the elevators at my uncle’s place for occasional needs. He lives on 3. And just like at Nathan Hale Gardens, the lobby is also a basement/bottom floor. The elevator arrows are programmed just like the ones at Tibbett Towers formerly.

They only change after the elevator door opens and after going down or up. They also did NOT consist of bells. The cameras inside those elevators were from “Cantek.” The elevator button light goes out as soon as the number changes to the floor it was to go to. The elevators at my uncle’s place also beep like as heard in a school, store, or workplace. To start April off, I do so with those elevators at my uncle’s place. That was no joke. My mother needed to visit him again.

-A NEW HOBBY?!-

During January and April, I started filming electric gates. This was foreshadowing a new hobby for me. For January, it was an apartment building in Riverdale with a parking lot on Irwin Avenue. The electric gate there was black. The gate had different kinds of diamonds, and the electric gate operator controlling it consisted of a literate car alarm for a “gate in motion” alarm. A light was also connected to the gate operator. The light blinks at the speed of a commercial fire alarm.

This made the gate seem special to me. In April, I filmed the electric gates at Corlear Gardens, electric gate B at Tibbett Towers, and both of the electric gates at Nathan Hale Gardens. The “gate in motion” alarm for Electric Gate B at Tibbett Towers is the literal beeping sound of a truck backing up. By May, I was officially fixated on electric gates. The left side elevator on Tibbett Towers Building B was halfway from fully modernized at that time. All new elevator doors were put over the pre-existing ones.

In June, my mother had a key with access to the lobby, laundry room, playground, and parking lot. (Brand name MUL-T lock.) She used that key to activate electric gate A at Tibbett Towers, and I filmed that gate. Modernization on the Left side elevator in building B was officially fully completed at that time. It consists of the same bell ding on the right side elevator but in its original tone.

The left side elevator was the one to consist of beeping door sensors now. The right side elevator’s door sensors were silent again, just like how it would usually be in an elevator at a school or workplace. The right elevator’s padding was also taken down. Later on in June, Grandma came with me so I could obviously ride the left side elevator at building B. That did not happen. The left-side elevator door refused to close. More residents came inside the left-side elevator along with us, so they could go to their apartments. We went out, and the left elevator door refused to close, resulting in a nudge mode. We took the right-side elevator instead.

-LAUNDRY ROOMS IN TIBBETT TOWERS AND CORLEAR GARDENS-

While Grandma and I were outside on the playground at Corlear Gardens, I needed to use the bathroom. As always, the laundry room was my only solution. I filmed the 2017 laundry machines for a few seconds in March of 2018. In April 2018, the Same case scenario happened at Corlear Gardens. But this time, my grandma needs the bathroom too, before I proceed to do my elevator mission.

A pair of Maytag washers were in action. To keep me entertained as I wait for Grandma to finish, I filmed the pair of Maytag washers. What I heard from them was a buzzing noise. The buzz means they have transitioned into the drain cycle. In May 2018, they put up a big flag on the Lobby entrance at Corlear Gardens. Before proceeding to do my elevator mission again, I needed to use the bathroom. Except this time after using it in the laundry room, my grandma was interacting with a resident that recognized us from when we lived there.

I filmed Two Wascomat Generation 7 washers and a Maytag washer doing work. The single dryer from AmericanDryerCorp was also doing work. When I saw the Wascomat Gen7 washers speed up, I heard what sounded like the motor from the previous Gen6 ones that were here when I still lived here. The washers continued to do the washes at regular speed. I filmed them all as my grandma was interacting with the resident. I proceeded with my elevator mission.

The right elevator came down to us. We rode it from the basement up to 21, and down to 1, as usual. Me and my grandma exited the elevator, and I ended the video with the big flag.

In June of 2018 at Tibbett Towers, our laundry had to be done. From there, I filmed the Gen6 Wascomat Washers speeding up. When I heard the motor speed up as I filmed the drum speed up, they sounded nothing like the ones that were formerly at Corlear Gardens. (Little I knew, at Corlear Gardens, was 30lb, and at Tibbett Towers was 45lb) The dryers however function and sound the same.

The Wascomat crossover washers were entirely different from their commercial counterparts. Whenever the Wascomat crossover washers sped up, they would shake. And when there were only four minutes left, it was pure chaos at full speed. The RPM on the crossover counterpart was 2x faster than their commercial counterparts when it was four minutes left!

-ELEVATOR MODERNIZATION COMPLETE. WHAT HAPPENS NOW?-

The Elevator modernization at Tibbett Towers was completed. What happened now? Directly after elevator work at Tibbett Towers was done, 315 Edwardian was next to have its single elevator modernized. The indicators were the “numbers in the middle of arrows” type, and it was probably breaking down a lot, leading to modernization. After the mod was complete, it now consists of digital numbers. I peeked through the window and saw the interior of the elevator still remaining there.

The modernization might have been minor. During the mod, I was walking home with my mother, I saw Electric Gate B opened up for a resident trying to get in. I was able to film electric gate B there, as A was stuck open because the elevator company was outside. Just like at Tibbett Towers, the “gate in motion” alarm at 315 Edwardian is the literal beeping sound of a truck backing up.

At Tibbett Towers, concrete was put on where there would be saddles for the new elevator outer doors. The new elevator door saddles were already installed in June. In July, there were some major renovations...