PARK SLOPE — One of the neighborhood's oldest institutions will soon get a 21st century update.
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission recently approved plans for the private Berkeley Carroll School to add a rooftop addition that will include a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning lab.
The June 14 approval, first reported by YIMBY, clears the way for Berkeley Carroll to renovate the third and fourth floors of its 181 Lincoln Pl. building and add to the roof. The addition will also include library and faculty space, YIMBY reported.
The school dates back to the 1880s and first operated as informal classes for neighborhood kids in a "double villa" at 181 Lincoln Place, according to the school's website.
Berkeley Carroll has grown steadily over the decades, acquiring 712 Carroll St. for early childhood classrooms in the 1980s and building a gym on President Street in the 1990s. Preservationists criticized a plan to build an annex to the Lincoln Place building in 2010.
The Berkeley Carroll school has expanded several times since it was founded in the late 19th century.
Community Board 6 suggested Berkeley Carroll replace zinc paneling with copper for the rooftop addition, but the LPC approved the proposal as is, with the zinc, according to YIMBY.
See the school's presentation to the LPC below:
