There’s a reason that in 2022 the New Jersey Turnpike Authority renamed the Forked River Service Area on the Garden State Parkway between exits 77 and 74 in Ocean County as The Celia Cruz Service Area, complete with a mini-museum provided by The New Jersey Hall Of Fame. (Cruz was inducted into the NJHOF in 2013.) She had fled Cuba for Mexico in 1960 but settled in New Jersey shortly thereafter, living out her days in Fort Lee where she died in 2003 at 77.