February 2023

Farewell, Justin Lowe...

The future of my website...

February 28th, 2023

Jonathan Mnukhin

For context, see here.

Let’s jump to the cut. In March 2022, I opened my webpage at the time of it being 5 years since I filmed elevators. The webpage was messy. The alignment list of elevators I filmed was messy. The same occurred with electric gates. Over time, more elevators // electric gates were recorded and added to the webpage as the alignment was updated to look neater. The goal was to show off my passion for elevators and electric gates, unlike all the other elevator webpages with car washes or trains or whatever.

At the time of uploading HD video recordings of elevators at Corlear Gardens, Waldo Gardens, etcetera, the YouTube videos remained unlisted as it was the only way to make them playable on my webpage. I also made an Instagram and Tiktok page to post my adventures. By the end of July, I made my elevator and electric gate videos public on YouTube. I also made shorts for some elevators I filmed. I also updated the videos of the elevators *specifically* at 6629 Broadway Avenue, Park Reservoir Apartments BLDG D, Waldo Gardens, Nathan Hale Gardens, Tibbett Towers, Corlear Gardens, and Promenade Apartments @ Marble Hill, because the elevators were modernized, I only went from the Lobby to the top floor, There were a lot of papers inside both elevators, an elevator beeps twice now, under new management, new security cameras in the elevators, and I decided to do a serious video of the elevators.

Now we are on February 27th, 2023. What will happen to my webpage? Will it remain inactive? No. I didn’t film any elevators or electric gates yet. I, however, went on some shopping trips which resulted in me riding on the Alexander Hamilton and Brooklyn Bridges. I have yet to post those on my website.

See you…

The future of staff/student interviews.

By Jonathan Mnukhin

February 14th, 2023

To all newcomers coming over here, let me just jump to the cut for ya. In March 2022, Ms. Sarah C had the idea of Class V62 Student/Staff interviews, hosted by Me, Noah, Helfry, and Justin Lowe. (back when Justin Lowe was still our classmate/crewmate) Helfry was the first one off to start with Joana (student) and I was the next one to start off with Ms. Joanna (vocational teacher) both in early April of 2022. However, Helfry’s photoshoot was on April 1st, and my photoshoot was on April 14th. Over time, I was a little too in the vibe of staff interviews.

One day, I and Helfry were sitting at a table together, and Joana sat down with Helfry. Joana was eager to answer questions, so I agreed to ask her questions/interview her, to which her request was “no elevators.” Knowing myself, I came up with some good questions, alright. And later on, I moved on to the staff. By early May and May, I began doing interviews with the entire PS138-related service staff!

It took a while to arrange a group photoshoot with the staff, but it worked out well! At one point in May, I interviewed Cesar, who is my classmate this year. It also took a long while to interview my teacher, Ms. Sarah Cullen… I did a lot of staff interviews that filled up the entire March, April, and May 2022 pages! By request, I moved all staff/student interviews that I did to their own page. Helfry’s, Noah’s, and Justin Lowe’s are left untouched. I took all my crewmates turns away, resulting in staff/student interviews being killed off.

As of November 2022, I continue the legacy of staff/student interviews, by, planning on student and staff interviews in an improved way thanks to a lesson from a vocational teacher who I plan on interviewing soon if no one else wants to interview him…

That is all I have to say for today, peace out, and happy Valentine's Day!

A Very "Windy" Day

By Noah Brown

February 27th, 2023

Hi, this is Noah. I would be very happy to talk about what happened on the High Line. It was our class trip to the High Line. It was taken on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023. While we were walking continuously on the High Line, I saw something that was moving in motion. I bet you’re wondering what that is? It’s a sculpture called Windy because when it spins into motion, it reminds me of a tornado. I’m going to tell you a little something about it. Windy is a sculpture that is made up of round layers of foam. Plus, it’s black and it moves by itself. Here’s something to know and remember: Windy is on West 24th Street. It was created by an artist named Meriem Bennani. It’s going to stay there from June 2022-May 2023 because it’s not going to be forever having Windy to be part of New York City. That’s all of the information I wanted to share with you for now. If you want to learn more about Windy, go to The High Line website to find out more information! I hope you’ll find it as interesting as me. If you do, make sure to see that in-person before it’s gone! But don’t be disappointed, you can still look at it on the internet and on YouTube. See ya real soon!

The Henry Hudson Parkway can take you places. Really.

By, Jonathan Mnukhin

February 9th, 2023

POV: You live in Yonkers. You want to go far down South to Manhattan. Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and other attractions are located in Manhattan. There are two ways. The usual Broadway, or a non-stop parkway. The non-stop parkway is faster.

Starting at the end of Saw Mill River Parkway is the beginning of the Henry Hudson Parkway. Unlike Broadway, the HH Pkwy is non-stop, unless you take a specific exit. You begin your journey and see the usual trees and suburban homes in both the east and west directions. The usual speed limit is 50 mph. Based on traffic, the limit descends to either 40 or 35. This also happens on Harlem River Drive.

As you drive South under the Riverdale Monument, you get out of the areas with trees and see apartment buildings. The sights continue until you reach the toll road located on the Henry Hudson Bridge. The bridge consists of both east and west views. The bridge is also operated by the MTA, which is also responsible for the NYC public transit trains and buses we see every day. I like the east view better because I saw the east view from my childhood apartment at Corlear Gardens. I didn’t expect to see the east view from the Bridge. This was a recurring thing from Summer school 2017, 2019-2020, and 2022-2023 school years, and a 1-time thing from Summer school 2019, and the 2021-2022 school year.

The toll road on the Henry Hudson Parkway used to have actual toll booths, which they removed to make toll payments automatically processed. They also implemented license plate cameras so they are able to locate the car of someone who didn’t pay their toll on time. Tolls are paid with EZ-pass or they can be billed to you by mail. According to a YouTube video from the MTA, they removed the toll booth gate arms to minimize traffic jams. In early 2017, the toll booths were demolished. As you get on the Henry Hudson Bridge, the Northbound and Southbound roads split up. The Southbound road is under the Northbound road. The bridge also has a walkway that connects the forests of Inwood Hill and Dyckman Street parks together. The walkway is on the Southbound road.

After driving through the toll booths/license plate cameras, your journey continues. You drive/ride through Dyckman Street and see the other road in the distance. If you have sharp eyes, you can even see Dyckman Street Park on the west side.

The exit itself is on the left lane. Continuing on, some New Jersey buildings can be seen. You also drive under the George Washington Bridge. Starting on Dyckman Street is another walkway that goes for the rest of the Henry Hudson Parkway. There is also an entrance to both roads from W 177th St. That entrance is my least favorite. After that, you also see a view of Riverside Drive from the East. After this, the Northbound and Southbound roads meet back up for the rest of the drive.

Continuing on, the New Jersey buildings continue to be the main spotlight of the West view as you drive past an Entryway/Exit to and from the parkway on W 158th St.

Riverbank State Park is also seen from the West. As you progress through the parkway, you also see views of W 125 St. from the East. The highway you see above is Riverside Drive. Continuing on, both Riverside Drive and Henry Hudson Parkway can be seen from each other, along with those buildings and another Parkway in New Jersey. As you drive on, a tennis court can be seen from the east, along with Riverside Drive in the far distance. As you continue on, you see more parks, sports fields, and more. You are about to reach the end of the Parkway. On your way to the end are beautifully built high-rise buildings/doorman buildings. The Pier Parks can be seen at the end of the Parkway on W 72nd St. There are Northbound-only exits, such as Kappock Street and Fort Tryon Park.

Fort Tryon Park also has a Northbound only entryway to the parkway. I discovered that on October 3rd of 2022. I found that as a detour to get back on the Henry Hudson Parkway and/or Bridge. For example, if there was ever an accident or generic traffic on the Parkway close to North Exits 11, 12, 13, or 14 meanwhile 15, 16, 17 18, and up to Saw Mill River Parkway are fine. The parkway continues to be a favorite drive for everyone, so what are you waiting for?! If you wanna see the sights, Go for a drive! Or a ride! -Jonathan.

UPDATE 02/14/2023: I would have loved for our class to go to Costco in Yonkers, but I heard from my teacher Ms. Sarah say that school buses can only go through boroughs. So unfortunately, the only field trips we can go through require us to take the Henry Hudson Parkway from Manhattan (Exit 8) to (Exits 18 and 21.)

Farewell, Justin Lowe...

Jonathan Mnukhin...

February 3rd... 2023...

Hello everyone... As you heard from Justin Lowe, he is leaving Park West. As we are happy for him, we are also sad he won’t be in our class anymore. But hey, nothing lasts forever.

Justin Lowe was a good influence on everyone, he always had a heart, and, well, an overall great friend and member of our news crew. Like me and Helfry, he watches Smg4, Sml, and Dorkly, and like Noah and Helfry, he is also a gamer.

As for Ms. Sarah C, she and Justin Lowe went way back, all the way to inclusion class at Tito Puente Education Complex @ J117. Justin was Mr. Frank’s best ally. Mr. Frank was with Justin L long ago, too. In the 2021-2022 school year, Justin L was on Ms. Sarah C’s student list. This made it the best year of his life. Justin graduated this year, and he was still able to make it for Summer school and the first half of this school year from September 8th, 2022 to February 3rd, 2023.

Once again, Justin was a good kid and we will miss him very much. Very. Good luck…

-Jonathan

Helfry Rants: Loud Startup Sounds (Rewritten)

By Helfry Flores

February 6th, 2023

Hello everyone and welcome to another rewriting of my rant series, Now I need to take a moment to apologize for the lack of articles from me for the past few weeks, a lot of things happened such as a bunch of school trips and other personal stuff, anyways as i’ve said in my last rewritten ranting article the reason as to why I’m rewriting some of my old ranting articles is because I’ve been copying and pasting what people said in many youtube videos such as the “You Know What’s BS” Series by James Rolfe and also because I really don’t like the execution of them. So with that long introduction out of the way let’s get started.

Don’t you just hate it when you turn on your computer or game console or open up Netflix and you end up with a loud welcoming chime that wakes up your pets and blows your ears, making you go temporarily deaf. These obnoxious “startup sounds” as the name implies plays whenever you start up your system but do we really need to know that we just turned it on, also does it have to be this loud? Like what if you’re trying to use your computer or gaming system in the middle of the night or at a library!

You better not have it at full blast otherwise you’ll end up grabbing the attention of the entire family or library, they should’ve given you the option to turn off these startup sounds in the settings or system preferences if you’re on a mac. And I know that you can just mute your computer or laptop to prevent this from happening but what if your computer doesn’t have a mute button? But all things considered there are other appliances in your house that make loud noises but the thing is they’re supposed to be that way because they have motors and other mechanisms inside of them, take vacuum cleaners as an example. They’re supposed to pick up dust and other particles by sucking them into the chamber which would later be ejected into the garbage. And then there’s paper shredders, they’re supposed to… well shred unwanted pieces of paper which would later be used for recycling purposes. And don’t even get me started on microwaves with their obnoxious beeping noises, I’ve already rewritten the article about it so check it out if you haven’t already, but seriously hearing all these sounds makes me want to rip parts of my ears off, It just straight up puts me on edge, it’s like something is about to make a loud noise at any given moment, I hate this so much!

So that’s it for this little rewriting of this here rant, remember to stay tuned for my next article and now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go take a nap.

The future of SMG4 and FNF articles.

By Jonathan Mnukhin

February 16th, 2023

FNF stands for Friday Night Funkin’

SMG4 stands for SuperMarioGlitchyFour

To make this quick, let me jump to the cut for ya. Beginning September 2021 to December 2021 was, well, our website. January 2022 was the start of diversity, where I write about fictional characters. The first FNF character is Garcello and the first two SMG4 characters are Meggy and Desti. I loved my work on the 3 characters that I continued on my fictional character article quest in February 2022.

When March 2022 came around, I wrote articles about a bunch of females from various FNF mods. I wrote about Pico from Pico’s School in May. I also waited until June 1st to write about Garcello’s friend Annie.

For May 2022, I changed the logo icon to Garcello and the favicon to SMG4, which was a modified Super Mario character icon in an FNF mod featuring Mario as the opponent.

As I was just browsing through our website in edit mode, the March 2022 page kept glitching. To make no one else experience this, I created a replica of the March 2022 page and moved all my SMG4 and FNF stuff from March 2022 to their own page. The articles from my crewmates/classmates Noah, Helfry, and Justin Lowe were untouched. I have yet to do the rest of my SMG4 and FNF articles.

I also created character icons of my own for Desti, Saiko, Whisk, Bo from Meta Runner and etc. I also edited the icons of Meggy, Tari, etc., and placed them on the May 2022 page. I edited all icons except Garcello’s to make them look sad on the June 2022 page since Garcello fading away is like your best friend at school moving on to the next step in life.

In the July/August 2022 pages, I have added icons of Meggy, Saiko, Desti, Tari, Bo from Meta Runner, Belle, Melony, and Whisk because it has been 5 years since Meggy made an appearance on SMG4, Whisk made an appearance in Meggy’s show “Sunset Paradise” and Meta Runner has had its final 3rd season as well as changed the logo icon to Meggy and Desti and favicon to Tari and Belle.

As of now, no SMG4 or FNF articles have been written. Eventually, one will be written soon…

-Jonathan

The Forgotton Game Modes Of the Smash Bros. Series: Part 1

By Helfry Flores

February 16th, 2023

Hey everyone and since it was valentine's day at the time i’m writing this article I decided to do a smash bros themed article since I did it last year, I might as well do it again, This article will be about the game modes in the smash series that only appeared in one game and never again so let’s not waste any more time and get straight into it.

First things first let’s talk about Super Smash Bros. on the Nintendo 64, this game only has one game mode that’s long forgotten and that is Board the Platforms the rules are simple you just stand on the platforms that are flashing red; once you do the light will instantly turn blue. All of the 12 characters have their own unique BTP Stage. And In Smash Remix (A Modded Version Of The Original Smash 64) All of the new and demade characters even have their own stages heck even every single character in that mod have access to all of the BTP stages even the boss characters like Metal Mario, Giant Donkey Kong, The Polygons, and even Master Hand can play on them. Come to think of it, smash remix is such a big mod for the Nintendo 64 that the devs suggest you activate the expansion pak on your n64 emulator.

Anyways let’s Move on to Smash Bros. Melee where we have two forgotten game modes, one of which is normally inaccessible in the menu so let’s talk about this first, this bonus stage is called “Snag The Trophies” where you knock the trophies into the neon pink bowl thing, once you do get the trophies into the giant bowl that trophy will be permanently added to your collection. For those of you who have been living under a rock, trophies are collectable items in the smash bros series that were introduced in melee. There have been many ways to collect trophies either by obtaining them in various game modes or playing minigames and completing challenges. Its last appearance was in Smash 4 and were replaced by spirits in Smash Ultimate, more on that in the next part. And then there was adventure mode and as the name implies you go on an adventure fighting your way through various enemies in different worlds. It is pretty fun the first time you play it, and then you play it again with a different character, and again, and again,

and again, you’ll most likely see the problem the 4th or 5th time you play it, there is no variety In this mode It’s honestly no wonder why this mode is long forgotten it’s just not well executed enough.

Anyways this is where things get good I mean really good we're gonna be talking about Smash Bros. Brawl and you guessed it The Subspace Emissary, there is one thing I like about this game mode and that is the cutscenes, creative bosses, and the way all of the characters are presented, some of the enemies and one of the bosses were later added into later smash games like the mites and the elemental rolling monsters were added as enemies in smash run a game mode in the 3DS Version of Smash 4, more on that a little later and galleom one of the bosses in the subspace emissary was added in smash bros. ultimate as a boss, so this means that the game mode is still getting some love with enemies and a boss being added in later smash games. So overall the subspace emissary is a very interesting game mode that I’d recommend replaying when you have the time! And then there’s coin blaster which was a smash bros brawl's version of snagging the trophies. The gameplay was pretty good but it often gets overshadowed by the subspace emissary.

Now let’s talk about smash 4 the moment that I’ve been waiting for, there are a Whopping 7 one off games two for the 3DS version 3 in the Wii-U Version and two of them are in both versions let’s talk about smash run, this is one of the game modes that I remember fondly, probably because of how they executed it, so you increase your stats by defeating enemies and open treasure chests, the enemies are actually pretty challenging to defeat one of them even steals your stat boosts and you have to chase after it to get them back and there even an enemy that pretends to be a treasure chest, if you try to open it, it will grow legs and will perform either a rapid kick attack and a bunch of sweeping kicks so don’t be fooled by those chests.

This article is getting a little too long so I’m gonna have to split them into two separate parts so I’m gonna have to end it off here. Anyways thanks for reading this Article, I really hope you enjoyed And I’ll see you guys again in the next article. Bye!!!

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