Updated October 13, 2025 Long before Astoria was called Astoria, a creek known by the local Indigenous peoples as Sunswick traveled northward from what is now Queens Plaza, up the present-day route of 21st Street, and opened into the East River, where Socrates Sculpture Park stands today. The Indigenous inhabitants of the land surrounding Sunswick Creek were displaced as European colonists, and later on, Americans, settled in the area. The land itself suffered, too. Beginnin