Barbra Streisand has expressed her delight over seeing a traffic sign with one of her iconic taglines installed in New York City.
Earlier this year, Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announced that a sign with the words “Hello, gorgeous!” would be mounted near the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Streisand gushed over the sign, which is a reference to the first line she utters as Fanny Brice in the 1968 feature, Funny Girl.<\/p>\n
“You’re looking at the new sign that will greet people as they enter Manhattan from Brooklyn,” she wrote in the caption. “NYC is where I found my voice. It gave me a chance, a stage, and a lifetime of inspiration. There’s nowhere else like it! Welcome to the Big Apple!”<\/p>\n
The 83-year-old, who won an Oscar for her performance in the film, went on to note that “Hello, gorgeous!” continues to have a lot of “meaning” to her.<\/p>\n
“As a teenager, I still remember that milelong ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan. It felt like a magical journey. Leading not just into the city but into my future, a place where dreams could come true. Welcome to the city that never sleeps, Manhattan. And may all your dreams come true,” she declared in a voiceover.<\/p>\n
Streisand also thanked Hoylman-Sigal for “making it happen”.<\/p>\n
“When you cross into Manhattan, there’s only one proper entrance line: ‘Hello, gorgeous.’ Barbra said it first, and frankly, she could’ve been talking about this borough,” he praised in a press release. “From Broadway to the skyline to the sheer audacity of it all, Manhattan has never been shy about a grand debut. These signs are a wink to our theatrical soul, our cultural legacy, and our well-earned confidence. After all, what better way to enter Manhattan than with a compliment?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand has expressed her delight over seeing a traffic sign with one of her iconic taglines installed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61025,18372,79573,40364,75,18081,9,24,55,54,56,79572],"class_list":["post-200464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-barbra-streisand","tag-brad-hoylman-sigal","tag-fanny-brice","tag-hello","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-borough-president","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-traffic-sign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}