By Jill Colvin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MIDTOWN — A Times Square hot dog vendor is not a fan of Liza Minnelli.
The legendary singer-actress-icon made a stop at West 47th Street and Seventh Avenue Tuesday afternoon to unveil her personalized Gray Line tour bus adorned with a decal of her face.
"Wow!" Minnelli said as she posed for a gaggle of paparazzi and other press gathered on the corner for the PR event. "Thank you!" she shouted to fans.
But Mohamed Elsaka, who runs the pretzel and hot dog stand on the same corner, was less than impressed.
"Who is she? Who cares," said Elsaka, 26, who complained the crowd of Minnelli-philes had cut him off from lunch-time eaters.
"She held up my business for like an hour," said the vendor, who estimated the hold-up had cost him $20 to $30 out of his $80 daily take-home pay. "That's the busiest hour of the day."
Some tourists were also confused by the fuss.
"Sorry...Nothing to be excited about," said Germany's Diane Brueggemann, 31, as she waited in line to take a city tour.
"I've been here, nobody's buying tickets," agreed one bus ticket seller after the crowd had dispersed, unconvinced that Minnelli would help his sales.
But others were less cynical about the roll-out.
"You know, why not?" said Brooklyn's Nikkita Flavius-Gottschalk, 23, who works in Times Square.
"Liza Minnelli is New York," she said, adding that the singer "looks absolutely amazing!"
"Liza Maniac" Avi Duv Devani, 63, who lives in New Jersey, said he has been a fan of Minnelli for the past 45 years and showed off a photo of the two of them taken in 1969.
"I'm happy that she looks great, happy and healthy so many years later," he said, excited to see her in person.
Sam Miro, 52, from the Bronx, who runs a Minnelli tribute website and said he's been a fan of the "Cabaret" star since childhood, was also thrilled.
"She represents Broadway and the arts and the spirit of New York," he said.
A handful of other celebrities, including Donald Trump, Whoopi Goldberg and Cyndi Lauper have also been honored with namesake buses by Grey Line.
