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.