Athens is a village in Greene County, New York, United States, with 1,586 people in the 2020 census.

In the late 18th century, a planned community called "Esperanza" was envisioned by French émigrés north of the current village, but financial troubles doomed the project.

[5] In the late 1830s, Athens had a horse-powered ferry, or "team boat" built for crossing the Hudson.

It is anachronistically portrayed in the 2005 film, War of the Worlds, when Martian tripods attack New York City refugees using it to flee across the river.

The village contains the portion of Murderers Creek that joins the Hudson River to Sleepy Hollow Lake.

Middle Ground Flats, an uninhabited island in the Hudson, is within the village limits.

New York State Route 385 passes through the village as Washington Street, running roughly parallel to the river.