The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Berkeley Carroll School, a private school in Park Slope, got initial approval from a community board panel to go ahead with a controversial new building and a rooftop play area.

By an 11-4 vote on Monday night, the Landmarks and Land-Use Committee of Community Board 6 approved the one-story building at the Berkeley Carroll School, which is on Lincoln Place between Seventh and Eighth avenues.  The Brooklyn Paper writes:

The vote came after several contentious meetings between the school and locals last year. School officials and some opponents kept talking, eventually settling on a compromise on the new building, which will include a 4,000-square-foot rooftop recreation area for middle school students.