THE NEWS SAYS: Move here and we promise you will just love it, Mr. President.

Come, Mr. President. Come and bring the family to live in the most vibrant, most diverse city in the world, home to the best of everything, home to the brightest in all, home to limitless possibilities. Citizen of the world Barack Obama is reportedly entertaining the notion of calling New York City his post-presidential home.

Come, Mr. President. You will be welcome, very welcome, in a metropolis where, overwhelmingly, you are beloved by 8.5 million residents. You’ll feel the heart’s pulse. That’s for sure.

The whispers about a move from the White House to Manhattan — or maybe a Brooklyn brownstone, or Queens row house — come as Chicago’s politics get increasingly messy and the very-Second City’s bid for the Obama presidential library looks increasingly dicey.

Standing as the obvious alternative is Obama alma mater Columbia University’s superior bid to plant the library on a cutting-edge 17-acre campus under construction in Manhattanville. Mr. President, consider the possibilities: Columbia would surely let you lead any seminar of your choosing. Take your pick of the law school, the undergraduate college or the School of International and Public Affairs.

You can simultaneously teach working-class strivers at CUNY, perhaps at its Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership.

It would be a short trip to the United Nations, where at a moment’s notice, you could command the world’s attention.

And you would no doubt relish neighborly conversations with another two-term Democratic President who spends most of his time here.

Learning from him and from Michael Bloomberg, you could build a foundation, if that’s what you seek to do. Or create another enterprise from scratch; that’s what we do here.

As for the family, where better for Michelle to battle childhood obesity, one of the First Lady’s chief crusades, than by working with the nation’s largest public school system (more than twice Chicago’s size)?

Who knows where Malia will go to college? Columbia and NYU may be in the running. Sasha will have her choice of outstanding public or private schools. And, boy, would the NYPD deliver security. This page has already noted that Obama’s New York years shaped him as much as any others.

As Obama wrote in his memoir, it was in New York that the disaffected young man attended Columbia in the 1980s and “stopped getting high.”

It was here that he began to think deeply about race relations in America:

“Whether because of New York’s density or because of its scale, it was only now that I began to grasp the almost mathematical precision with which America’s race and class problems joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia’s bathrooms as well, where, no matter how many times the administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched with blunt correspondence between n----s and k---s.”

It was here that Obama found his footing as a community organizer — then, at the New York Public Library’s mid-Manhattan branch, found his way to his first Chicago job.

Obama, the fifth-youngest President in American history at the time of his inauguration, has a long and productive post-presidential career ahead of him. The possibilities are boundless.

Which is to say, they are a perfect match for New York City.

Come, Mr. President, come.