Whether you call her the Material Girl, the Mother of Re-Invention – or even Esther – one thing seems clear: Madonna still rules in New York.

After a three-year break from the stage, the sexy superstar brought her Reinvention Tour to packed Madison Square Garden last night and rocked the joint.

She had the crowd from the get-go, rising up from the stage clad in a gold bustier, itsty bitsy black shorts and sky-high boots, and launching into one of her biggest hits, “Vogue.”

Applause rattled the rafters when she threw in a back bend and handstand worthy of Olympic consideration.

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One of the faithful who scored a ticket for the opening of the sold-out, six-night run was Joey Fernandez, a 25-year-old medical student from Brooklyn.

“I love her so much because she lives on her own terms,” he explained “She doesn’t worry about taboos. She destroys clichés.”

The two-hour thrill ride went on with Madonna delighting the fans with old favorites like “Material Girl,” “Express Yourself,” “Get Into the Grove” and winding up with “Holiday” performed with a slew of confetti drenched dancers.

Near the end, Madonna praised filmmaker Michael Moore, who was in the audience, and his new flick, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Then she made a pitch for peace and sang John Lennon’s “Imagine“.

“It was a dream,” 20-something sisters Marcella and Camilla Monico gushed in unison. The sibs made the concert the centerpiece of their visit here from Brazil. “We’d go it again in a second.”

Photographer Steven Feingersh, 50, of Oceanside, L.I., was similarly enthused.

“I just think she has a fabulous voice, I actually really do,” he insisted. “And she gets better with age. The girl is even more sexy than she used to be.”

None seemed aware that the pop icon now wants to be called Esther. Her study of the kabbalah inspired her to take the new name, she told ABC News in an interview to be broadcast tomorrow.

The name game didn’t faze a Manhattan man who wanted to be called only Chris. He came to the show wearing a foot-high curly blond wig and a gold-colored Victorian dress – a replica of one of the singer’s costumes. Chris said he spent $1,000 on the getup simply because, “I fell in love with her” back in 1984.

Article by Rebecca Louie and Leo Standora, New York Daily News