JERSEY CITY -- Jersey City Heights artist Mr. Abillity is at work today painting a 30-feet Monopoly board on the Newark Avenue pedestrian plaza.

Mr. Abillity -- aka Gary Wynans -- said the street art, which he hopes will be completed next week, is based on something he created for himself using his tablet and posted on Facebook. A mayoral aide reached out to him and recruited him to create a bigger one for the pedestrian plaza, located outside the Grove Street PATH station.

The teal-tinged board, which runs 33 feet by 33 feet, includes nods to the PATH system, the Marion Gardens public-housing complex and the Colgate Clock. Wynans started painting it on Wednesday.

The project features "half new Jersey City -- which is the nice, murals everywhere, up class -- and then old Jersey City, which you can see it, it's still there," he told The Jersey Journal today.

An early version of the Jersey City-centric Monopoly board Mr. Abillity -- aka Gary Wynans -- is painting on the Newark Avenue pedestrian plaza. Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal

Some of the features of Wynans' original prototype -- like a pig-in-a-police-uniform in the "Go to Jail" square -- will not be replicated on Newark Avenue, Wynans said, "for politically correct reasons."

Wynans said he's heard from critics who aren't happy with how he's portrayed Jersey City or with some of the squares on his board -- one says "Gentrification Tax" -- but he said he's hoping it won't be taken too seriously.

"The intention is to have fun with your city," he said.

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