A statue of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, stands at its entrance – a gift from the city of Athens in 1998. Not far away is a bust of the philosopher Aristotle that arrived in 2005 courtesy of Chalkidiki, a region in the north of Greece. Beyond a group of children playing football sits a statue of Socrates, presumably thinking.
The park lies off 30th Avenue in Astoria, a suburb of New York that became home for many of the thousands of Greeks who emigrated to America in the early part of the twentieth century.
