Wang ‘true hero’ for keeping Isles local
Former team owner instrumental in franchise remaining in N.Y.
Charles Wang graduated from Brooklyn Tech High School in 1962, but his love affair with our fair borough and his alma mater resumed long after he went on to become the billionaire owner of the NHL’s New York Islanders.
I first crossed paths with Wang, then known primarily as the co-founder of Computer Associates and as the new owner of the New York Islanders, in 2001 on 510 Clermont Ave. between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue.
What had once been a vacant lot was transformed into what is still a fully functional and since-renovated football field for his Brooklyn Tech Engineers, a program that had lacked a pitch of grass and goal posts to call its own for the previous half century.