Nickerson Gardens

Nickerson Gardens housing projects Nickerson gardens is a 1054-unit public housing apartment complex at 159 East 114th street in Watts,Los Angeles,California.

Nickerson Gardens consists of 156 buildings with townhouse style units ranging in size from one bedrooms to five bedrooms. It was completed in the year 1955, and the original architect was Paul Revere Williams. It was named after William Nickerson Jr. the founder of the Golden State Mutual life insurance company. The complex is owned and managed by the Housing Authority of Los Angeles. Nickerson G

ardens is the largest public housing development west of the Mississippi river. The complex occupies the blocks Northeast of the corner of Imperial Highway and Central Avenue,and Southwest of 111 th street and Compton Avenue. It is on the border of both Watts(a district of south Los Angeles) And the CDP of Willowbrook. In the mid-199s, Nickerson Gardens was 95% Black. By 2004 it was 35% Black. Nickerson Gardens is the recognized birthplace of Bounty Huntaz blood gang. A Los Angeles Times article on November 17, 2007 detailed gang patrols in and around Nickerson Gardens.

02/08/2013
02/05/2013

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1590 E 114th Street
Los Angeles, CA
90059

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(323) 357-6777

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