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Metal scaffolding climbs its way up the reddish-brown sandstone that makes up the Million Dollar Staircase — an enormous, intricately carved, four-floor structure in the New York State Capitol in Albany.

This summer, for the first time since 1898, a new face is being added — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late U.S. Supreme Court justice born and raised in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood.

The Capitol’s famed staircase is home to carvings of 77 “famous” faces, not to mention more than a dozen others who are mysteries even to the building’s knowledgeable historians, though most believe the unknowns are relatives of the original carvers.

A carving of Ginsburg’s face and famed South African collar — the beaded white one she wore for special occasions — has already been installed between the second and third floor, though it remains blocked off from public view as stone carvers complete the inscription and do minor clean-up work. Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration is expected to officially unveil Ginsburg’s stone portrait in August.