Chris Shand, Clip 5: Neighborhood Association and Development

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Chris Shand

Date: Time Period: 1990 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:01:39

Creator: Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20515 shand_chris_clip5

Description: Chris Shand works the 4pm to midnight shift at the Flushing Hospital where his wife also works as a nurse. He grew up in Richmond Hill, Queens in a middle class neighborhood and later lived in upstate New York before returning to Queens. He first moved to Flushing in the 1990's and has seen populations and housing costs rise dramatically. Chris is a member of the Waldheim Neighborhood Association, a group that sought zoning changes to prevent developers from tearing down historic houses to replace them with large apartment buildings. He and his wife live in an older apartment building just a few blocks from the hospital. Shand says that the members of the neighborhood association want to make the Flushing neighborhood of Waldheim a better place to live. People hired by developers come to their meetings pretending to be from a community group to antagonize them.

Title : Chris Shand, Clip 5: Neighborhood Association and Development

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20681

Creator : Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1990 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010

Summary/Description : Chris Shand works the 4pm to midnight shift at the Flushing Hospital where his wife also works as a nurse. He grew up in Richmond Hill, Queens in a middle class neighborhood and later lived in upstate New York before returning to Queens. He first moved to Flushing in the 1990's and has seen populations and housing costs rise dramatically. Chris is a member of the Waldheim Neighborhood Association, a group that sought zoning changes to prevent developers from tearing down historic houses to replace them with large apartment buildings. He and his wife live in an older apartment building just a few blocks from the hospital. Shand says that the members of the neighborhood association want to make the Flushing neighborhood of Waldheim a better place to live. People hired by developers come to their meetings pretending to be from a community group to antagonize them.

Subject : Real estate development; Community activists; Neighborhood government; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.); Waldheim Neighborhood Association

Relation : Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Chris Shand

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Waldheim, Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:01:39

Identifier : aql:20515 shand_chris_clip5

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Real estate development; Community activists; Neighborhood government; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.); Waldheim Neighborhood Association