Here’s an excerpt from the Brooklyn Paper’s story:

The city has approved a Park Slope private school’s expansion plan, a controversial scheme that vexes some residents who fear that the new building will undermine the neighborhood’s historic character.

On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 8-0 in favor of the Berkeley Carroll School’s one-story annex and rooftop playground at the rear of its campus on Lincoln Place between Seventh and Eighth avenues.

The addition is four feet taller — and occupies a larger footprint — than an existing portion of the school that will be razed.

The project was approved because it “does not involve the removal of historic fabric, and the addition is not visible from a public thoroughfare,” said Landmarks spokeswoman Lisi de Bourbon…

…Some residents of St. Johns Place, whose backyards abut the Berkeley Carroll School, vow to fight on.

“The community will not stand by and allow … a project so antagonistic to the neighbors,” said John Muir.