Gallery: Barack's Back In Action! Obama Hit Up New York City This Week And People Went Nuts

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Barack's Back In Action! Obama Hit Up New York City This Week And People Went Nuts
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Haley Henschel
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Former President Barack Obama got a rock star's welcome when he stepped out in New York City this week.

On Friday morning, No. 44 met with members of the Simons Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds research in the fields of math and science. According to TMZ, its namesakes have donated about $700,000 for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago.

A video taken at the scene shows a crowd cheering wildly as Obama, flanked by members of the Secret Service, waves and hitches a ride in a nearby vehicle.

About Haley Henschel

Haley is a writer, editor, and illustrator from Wisconsin, so please don't serve her an Old Fashioned unless it contains brandy. Outside of work, you'll find her aquascaping, getting bossed around by her bird, or planning another trip to Australia. She currently lives in Chicago, where she's having a hard time adjusting to the whole "no ketchup on hot dogs" thing. Feel free to send your pizza recs/Kardashian konspiracies her way. Currently reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.

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