'Yes Bishes, I AM Madonna and that is my driveway': Defiant pop icon hits out after her neighbors complained about her fake 'No parking' signs outside her $40million Manhattan townhouse

A defiant Madonna has angrily hit back at her New York City neighbors after Daily Mail Online reported their annoyance at her attempts to hog the parking in front of her $40m mansion.

The 57-year-old singer said on Instagram 'Yes Bishes I am Madonna and that is my driveway'  - after neighbors complained about her fake 'No parking' signs and yellow paint outside her Upper East Side home.

She was referring specifically to one neighbor who complained to Daily Mail Online about the singer's 'obnoxious' behavior. 

Madonna went on to plead her case, with reference to her traffic woes, before issuing an apology of questionable sincerity.

'If people park in front of it i cant [sic] drive in my driveway! So sorry the city doesn't like the color yellow! We will paint a nice dull grey to keep our neighbors happy! Sorry! Im saying 3 extra Hail Mary's this Easter for this transgression!' 

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Anger: Madonna instagramed a screenshot of Daily Mail Online's original report with a defiant message to her neighbors, telling them: 'Yes Bishes I am Madonna and that is my driveway'

Defiant: Madonna said she will repaint the yellow curb which could break city laws, and added a seemingly insincere apology. 'I'm saying 3 extra Hail Mary's this Easter for this transgression!' she added

Traffic woes: Madonna allegedly arranged to put up this sign outside her $40million Upper East Side townhouse. City officials have now told her to remove it

Ticket: The singer could face a $250 fine over the signs and paint, if she fails to comply with a city order remove them, officials said.

An NYPD officer inspects the controversial curb outside Madonna's apartment Thursday morning 

The townhouse is four stories tall and sold for $40million in 2009 - the most expensive apartment sold in the area at that time

The fake signage includes a 'No parking' sign posted on the singer's security gates, which open to a private garage

The signs do not match the design of official Department of Transportation notices and use different language

The real thing: An actual Department of Transportation sign at a different location in New York 

She has installed fake signage that includes a 'No parking' sign posted on the singer's security gate, and a 'Tenant parking only' sign mounted on a pole in a flower bed on the sidewalk. 

Both signs threaten that 'unauthorized vehicles will be towed away.'

The pop icon's people also had the words 'No parking' imprinted along the edge of the sidewalk, and painted the curb yellow.

New York City Department of Transport officials told Daily Mail Online that the painting and writing on the curb could be illegal under laws that prohibit the defacing of city property by painting or making imprints. 

A DOT spokesman also confirmed to Daily Mail Online that Madonna's 'No parking' sign in the flower bed outside her home was illegal and that the singer has been told to remove it. 

'We can confirm we recently inspected this location and issued a letter of defacement,' a spokesman said. 

Earlier on Thursday, neighbors had spoken to Daily Mail Online about the signs and painting outside the four-story Georgian-style townhouse. 

'We've all been wondering for a while now if these signs are real and everyone on her street has just accepted them,' one said.

'At first we thought it made sense as often you see middle age fans trying to catch a glimpse of her, so it looked like she had a permit to have them so she could come and go without being annoyed. We're now troubled that they could be fake as this just seems so entitled.' 

But the signs aren't the only way Madonna, 57, annoys her neighbors. 

'What has angered us the very most is that when she leaves one of her staff literally walks into the street and stops cars and pedestrians from passing.'

'This way she can leave from inside the garage and not have to deal with the public,' a neighbor said.

'It's really quite obnoxious and we all joke that she is playing "Bitch I'm Madonna" as her chauffeured car drives her by all of us minions waiting on the street for her to pass.' 

Madonna, pictured Saturday at a concert in Sydney, allegedly tried to trick her NYC neighbors with fake 'No parking' signs

The pop icon also had the words 'No parking' imprinted along the edge of the sidewalk, and painted the curb yellow.

'We've all been wondering for a while now if these signs are real and everyone on 81st Street has just accepted them,' a neighbor told Daily Mail Online

The pop icon's people had the words 'No parking' imprinted along the edge of the sidewalk, and painted the curb yellow

'The funny thing about this is that the Upper East Side is divided into two sections West of Lexington and East of Lexington. Madonna lives East of Lexington. West of Lexington is where the super-rich live and she would never get away with this if she lived there.'

'West of Lexington they'd all either bitterly complain or her neighbors would want the same thing too,'  the neighbor remarked. The story was first reported by TMZ. 

With the conclusion of Madonna's most recent tour, Rebel Heart, which wrapped up in Sydney on Sunday, the pop singer officially became the highest-grossing touring solo artist on record, according to statistics from Billboard released Wednesday.

The $169.8million she grossed during the 82-stop tour added up to a career total of $1.31billion earned since 1990. Number two on the solo artist list, Bruce Springsteen, has grossed a total of $1.25billion in the same period.