The park is located at the southeast corner of Virginia Avenue and 21st Street NW.

[1] The park is the site of the bronze sculpture Discus Thrower, a replica of the ancient statue Discobolus.

Since the mid-1970s, the Federal Reserve maintains a public tennis court in the park, and frequent patrols of the park are conducted by the Federal Reserve Police.

[2] In April 2011, without a continuing budget passed by Congress, 800,000 federal employees seemed to be soon on unpaid furlough during an imminent shutdown.

[3] A group of federal employees, many from the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development, gathered at a rally to protest the imminent furloughs.