Harriet Walker’s East Flatbush living room is the stuff of legend: Barbra Streisand slept there. The room served as a bedroom for the superstar when she was a Brooklyn kid with big dreams.

Here's how she went from humble beginnings in Brooklyn to global stardom. Read more: Celebrity Couples With The Biggest Age ...

Here are the Jewish highlights from “My Name is Barbra.” Streisand was born in Brooklyn, in April 1942. In the book, she writes of her grandfather taking her to an Orthodox synagogue and of ...

Her first Emmy was for her TV special, My Name is Barbra, her first Oscar for her lead role in Funny Girl, and her Tony for Star of the Decade. Streisand was born in Brooklyn, New York to parents ...

In "My Name Is Barbra," the EGOT winner tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her ... about Streisand’s photo dump of self-portraits and ...

Streisand’s memoir ... up deprived both economically and emotionally in a housing project in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Instead of a doll she carried a hot-water bottle — “I swear it felt more ...