New Yorkers to Barack Obama: You’ll love it

Some prominent New Yorkers have advice for President Barack Obama should he choose to make the Big Apple his home upon leaving office in 2017: Take the subway.

“It’s a great city. You’ll love it here. But let’s get some disclosure out of the way up front. You haven’t even come close to experiencing traffic in New York,” said Pat Kiernan, Time Warner Cable News NY1 anchor. “The trip from JFK on Friday afternoon isn’t nine minutes via helicopter. It’s 90 minutes on the Van Wyck and LIE. Please do come to the city, and join us on the subway as often as you can.”

Where Obama will make his home after leaving the White House in 2017 remains undetermined, with many thinking he would return to his home in Chicago. However, the president has told friends that he would like to live in New York City, as reported by POLITICO on Sunday. Former NBA player and close friend of Obama — Alonzo Mourning — told POLITICO that while other cities have been thrown around, “The one thing that stood out more than anything else was New York.”

Obama wouldn’t be the first president to make New York home after moving out of 1600 Pennsylvania. Bill and Hillary Clinton have based the Clinton Global Initiative in the city, which New York Sen. Chuck Schumer noted.

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Off topic note: Kiernan also has an afternoon radio show on 77 WABC, the former flagship station of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. (WABC replaced Rush with local hosts Curtis Sliwa & Ron Kuby at the beginning of the year, and Kiernan's show is in the 3rd hour of the former Hannity afternoon drive slot.) Just an off-topic observation...WABC hired a guy who ENCOURAGED Obama to move to NYC? Haha.