Date: 2010Material: Digital imageDimension:
300 ppi
Creator: Chris ShandIdentifier: aql:20722 shand_chris_portrait shand_chris_portrait.tif
Description: At the time of his interview with the Queens Memory Project, retired medic, Chris Shand, worked as a security guard for Flushing Hospital. He worked the 4pm to midnight shift at the Flushing Hospital where his wife also worked 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 saw 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.
Summary/Description : At the time of his interview with the Queens Memory Project, retired medic, Chris Shand, worked as a security guard for Flushing Hospital. He worked the 4pm to midnight shift at the Flushing Hospital where his wife also worked 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 saw 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.
Subject : Security guards; Shand, Chris; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)
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Coverage : 4500 Parsons Blvd, Flushing, Queens NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Rights Notice This image 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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