A state-of-the-art park is starting to take shape at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Borough reporter Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report.

Brooklyn Bridge Park is literally being built from the bottom up. Bulldozers are creating rolling hills on what were once industrial piers on the Brooklyn waterfront.

"It's been carefully designed to accentuate all the wonderful views from the site of Brooklyn Bridge Park to the lower Manhattan skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty," says President Regina Myer of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation. "Those views are one of our biggest assets."

One 22-feet-high vista promises paved pathways and park benches. The set of stairs that approaches it, the "River Steps," was made of salvaged granite from the Roosevelt Island Bridge.

"We really hope that the River Steps are our beautiful Metropolitan Museum steps or Brooklyn Museum steps where people can all come and enjoy the wonderful views, the wonderful weather," says Myer.

Construction is taking place throughout the 85-acre park but the focus is on the park's two ends, Pier 1 and Pier 6, which both include playgrounds.

The $100 million project on the two piers started in January and is intended to be ready by December.

Once Piers 1 and 6 are completed, visitors will be able to use these parts of the park by entering at two locations, on Old Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue.

The city and state have committed $225 million in total to construct the Park. Features include a promenade, boating facilities and athletic fields.

"Over the next four years, we'll be able to build the connections between Piers 1 and Piers 6 to connect the whole site to provide continuous access," says Myer.

Yet the park is still not totally funded. Officials say they are confident that once the economy turns around they will receive more government funding to finish the final phases.