Article: Is there too much on Wang's plate?: Since the magnate started buying Oyster Bay property, some have feared wholesale change while friends welcomed progressive plans.

Byline: Elizabeth Moore

Jul. 24--The handsome new storefronts and sensitive renovations are hard to miss, tucked here and there along South Street, Audrey Avenue and elsewhere in the aged downtown of Oyster Bay hamlet. A handful of chic retailers has moved in, as has an art academy. And an elegant brick public walkway has been built to link a main street to its parking lot, with formal plantings of ginkgo trees, lilies and an antique fountain enticing shoppers to explore a once-hidden nearby Victorian garden tended by local volunteers. It's all the doing of Charles Wang, the hamlet's biggest landlord, who has promised to restore the sheen to a community ...

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