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Chris Shand, Clip 4: Relationships with Neighbors

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Chris Shand
Date: Time Period: 1970 - 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: 0:02:13
Creator: Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20596 shand_chris_clip4

Description: Chris Shand works the 4pm to midnight shift at 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. Shand says he knew his neighbors better when he lived upstate. Now, he and his wife are friendly, but not close, to their neighbors in their apartment building in the Waldheim neighborhood of Flushing.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20681

Creator : Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1970 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010

Summary/Description : Chris Shand works the 4pm to midnight shift at 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. Shand says he knew his neighbors better when he lived upstate. Now, he and his wife are friendly, but not close, to their neighbors in their apartment building in the Waldheim neighborhood of Flushing.

Subject : Neighbors; Apartment houses; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

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: 0:02:13

Identifier : aql:20596 shand_chris_clip4

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Subject:
Neighbors; Apartment houses; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

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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.


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