Barbra Streisand is done with New York. After decades of calling the city home, the singer and actress says she is packing her bags and joining the growing line of wealthy residents heading for the exits, blaming what she calls the city’s “communist takeover” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The announcement came on the sidewalk outside her Manhattan penthouse, where a small group of reporters had gathered after word spread that moving trucks had been spotted on the block. Streisand, wearing oversized sunglasses and clutching a garment bag, stopped to talk and didn’t hold much back.
“Mamdani said he was only coming after billionaires,” she said, her voice cracking. “I worked my whole life for that money.

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