The complex occupies the blocks northeast of the corner of Imperial Highway and Central Avenue, and southwest of 111th St 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-1990s, Nickerson Gardens was 95% black. By 2004 it was 35% black.
Nickerson Gardens is the recognized birthplace of the Bounty Hunter Bloods gang. A Los Angeles Times article on November 17, 2007 detailed gang patrols in and around Nickerson Gardens.
in the 13000 block of East115th Street, according to a department spokesperson ... McKinzie was initially arrested in the Nickerson Gardens public housing apartment complex on suspicion of trespassing and drinking in public, police sources told NBC4 ... .
LA native rapper Jay Rock, whose real name is Johnny Reed McKinzie III...Rock, whose legal name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was arrested after he was initially caught trespassing and drinking in public near the Nickerson Gardens housing complex ... ....
Jay Rock is in trouble with the law ...115th Street in his home neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles, ABC7 reports. The news channel’s information comes from the LAPD, who say Jay Rock was initially stopped for trespassing in the Nickerson Gardens ... 0.
The Grammy winner, whose legal name is Johnny Reed McKinzie, was initially approached by officers for trespassing and drinking in public around 6pm near the Nickerson Gardens public housing complex in the Watts area, according to KNBC... I’m here now.'.
RodneyKent Nickerson, 82, whose grandfather founded the Nickerson Gardens public housing complex in Watts, died after refusing to evacuate his home... Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development in Los Angeles, with 1,066 units.