Checkin’ in with: Our exclusive interview with the head of Long Island College Hospital’s “restructuring” — which critics think will be the death of the 150-year-old hospital. It’s an interview you’ll read nowhere else but The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

Cobble Hill: Santo Matarazzo, who lived on the same Carroll Gardens block since arriving from Italy in the 1950s — and then set about fixing the neighborhood brownstone by brownstone — died on Oct. 23 of cancer. The sculptor, artist, handyman, landlord and beloved neighbor was 79. Comments (7).

Gowanus: The first large, mixed-income housing project on the banks of the polluted Gowanus Canal scored a key first victory last Thursday night in the lengthy public approval process for the controversial development. Comments (3).