The name translates in Polish to sands and was a reference to the sandy dunes characteristic to the area.

Following the end of the war, until October 1949, in the area was located Soviet prisoner-of-war camp.

In the early 1980s, the architect Józef Zbigniew Polak had designed the apparent complex at Sybiraków Avenue, to form the shape of four stars, the symbol of the general of the army of the Polish Armed Forces.

It was done to honour general Wojciech Jaruzelski, who at the time was the Prime Minister of Poland and the commander-in-chief of the Polish Armed Forces.

[10][11] Since 2019, at the crossing of Sybiraków Avenue and Piaskowska Street, is being built a nine-story apartment building, the first skyscraper in Piaski.

[10][11] Piaski is located within the southeastern portion of the district of Bielany, in the city of Warsaw, Poland.

[1] It borders Old Bielany, and Słodowiec to the north, Sady Żoliborskie to the east, Fort Bema to the south, Lotnisko to the south-west, and Chomiczówka to the west.