Every American President passed through New York City. Some were born here such as Theodore Roosevelt. Some lived here. Herbert Hoover spent his post Presidential years residing in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Some were Married Here. John Tyler married Julia Gardiner at the Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue & 10th Street in 1844. Chester Arthur worked in New York first as a lawyer and later as the Collector of the Port of New York, a position which actually paid more than the presidency. Grover Cleveland was operated on for cancer of the jaw on a yacht off of Pier A. Some like Ulysses S Grant went bankrupt here. Abraham Lincoln gave the famous speech at Cooper Union that launched his candidacy and sadly returned a few years later in a casket to City Hall to terminate it. The appropriate place to celebrate President’s Day is, of course, Federal Hall, our first capital whose balcony was the site of Washington’s inauguration

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