Mental Judo: A Cryptic Blog (11)

Kaye and I have known each other for 5 years thanks to the wonderful world of crossword solving on Twitch, so it's about dang time we collaborated on a puzzle (and finished it)! This one is themed around our shared interest of board games, and we brought it to this year's Westwords  (where we competed as a pair and won the Beach division!). Kaye says: "As collabs often go, we have had a few different things in the works over the years without getting them out the door, but I was happy to get this one polished up in time for Westwords and to now share it here. Expect more from us (but not necessarily in a timely fashion) because it turns out we have fun working together!" Thanks to Herzwesten , known tabletop gamer and tabletop game maker,  for taking a look at this for us. [ solve online ] [ pdf ] [ ipuz ]

This puzzle relates to a specific location—can you use the themed answers to figure out where you are before the grid spells out the answer? (Highlight the spoilered text below to see which answers relate to the location) Special shout out to Rich, who redeemed this puzzle as a channel-point redemption on my stream , only about [*mumbles four-digit number*] days ago! Our stalwart tester this time was  skaldskaparmal , whose latest puzzle is (like all of them) an amazing construction with an awesome [redacted].  As ever, I will add some text here to avoid the spoilered answer text from appearing in the link preview. Have a nice day! [ solve online ] [ pdf ] [ .ipuz ] SOLUTION: (highlight to reveal) When some guy stole MONOPOLY from the woman who invented it, he rethemed it using streets from Atlantic City, New Jersey The New Jersey DEVIL is a cryptid (and also hockey I guess) The Jersey SHORE is a coastline encompassing dozens of towns and communities The New Jersey...