*The above Las Vegas Hoods Map is Not Created by History of West Las Vegasīefore local politics helped with the decline of the Westside African-Americans built a community that they were forced to reside in, mostly due to redlining and being forbidden from living and opening businesses in any other section of the city other than West Vegas. Neighboring West Vegas are the streets of the North Las Vegas ghetto, or North Town, a large community with Mexican and black ‘hoods like the infamous Donna Blocc, which shows how Las Vegas gangs have never been limited in one area or section of the city.
North of Lake Mead Boulevard is Las Vegas gangs of the Crips in areas and ‘hoods like Crip City, Valley View, Vegas Heights, or the States (Regal Estates), all having their own reputations within the streets of West Vegas. While Gerson Park was the most known and had the fiercest reputation within the Las Vegas ghetto, other sections like The Coast (Marble Manor), the old Madison Terrace projects, the Jetz (Sherman Gardens) and the once historic area of Berkeley Square, known as Burgunday Square, had become well familiar, especially with their affiliation with Bloods. The community changed after the city of Las Vegas began to end segregation and allowed the city’s black population to occupied other businesses and establishments outside of West Vegas, while also allowing them to live in other communities.īy the 1970s, the Westside was completely different from its early days as a new era has entered the community that somewhat changed the culture of West Vegas.Ī new generation of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s led to the rise of Las Vegas gangs like the Gerson Park Kingsmen (GPK), who were originally referred as the Ace of Spades, a large gang in West Las Vegas that resided in the former Herbert Gerson Park housing project.Įven after the Herbert Gerson Park projects being demolished during the late 1990s, the Kingsmen reign throughout Las Vegas, and not just the Westside, as their conflicts with Crip City and other Las Vegas gangs was broadcasted across the region. Over the years, West Las Vegas built a reputation as being the home of Las Vegas gangs and various Las Vegas hoods, but many times this is exaggerated by the local media and citizens who have very little ties to the community.īounded by Rancho Drive (Hwy 95) and Interstate 15, on the east and west, West Las Vegas is its own small community that has had its moments of success and its moments of trouble and conflict. Las Vegas is a city largely known for its casinos, entertainment, and a lifestyle that has given the city a moniker by the name of “Sin City”, but there is another side that is just a short distance from the Las Vegas Strip, West Vegas, the Las Vegas ghetto.
West Las Vegas: Short Story of the Las Vegas Ghetto
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