Nickerson Gardens

Nickerson Gardens is a 1,066-unit public housing apartment complex at 1590 East 114th Street in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States. Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development in Los Angeles.

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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station and Verbum Dei Jesuit High School.

Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station

Railway station

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Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station is a major transport hub and Los Angeles Metro Rail station that serves the A and C lines. The station, located at the intersection of Imperial Highway and Wilmington Avenue in the Willowbrook community of Los Angeles County, is a major transfer point for commuters. Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station is situated 3,800 feet east of Nickerson Gardens.

Verbum Dei Jesuit High School

School

Verbum Dei Jesuit High School, nicknamed the Verb, is a private Catholic all-boys college preparatory school sponsored by the Society of Jesus in Los Angeles, California. Verbum Dei Jesuit High School is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Nickerson Gardens.

103rd Street/Watts Towers station

Railway station

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103rd Street/Watts Towers station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision, at its intersection with 103rd Street, after which the station is named, along with the nearby landmark Watts Towers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. 103rd Street/Watts Towers station is situated 1 mile northeast of Nickerson Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Watts and Willowbrook.

Watts

Neighborhood

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Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south.

Willowbrook

Suburb

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Willowbrook, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

South Los Angeles

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South Los Angeles is a large region of Los Angeles made up of the neighborhoods south of Downtown L.A. This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.

Nickerson Gardens

Type: Residential area
Description: public housing project in Los Angeles
Category: public housing
Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.93216° or 33° 55′ 56″ north

Longitude

-118.25003° or 118° 15′ 0″ west

Elevation

98 feet (30 metres)

Open location code

8553WPJX+VX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 249158024

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

GeoNames ID

5376993

Wikidata ID

Q7028431

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Igbo to Spanish—“Nickerson Gardens” goes by many names.

Igbo: “Ogige Nickerson”
Spanish: “Nickerson Gardens”

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