President Trump may have officially declared himself a full-time Florida resident, but for some reason he keeps returning to his hometown.

Organizers of New York City’s Veterans Day Parade announced on Wednesday that Mr. Trump would help kick off the event on Monday at Madison Square Park in Manhattan, the first president to do so.

Mr. Trump is deeply unpopular in the city and his visits are often met with protests. On Saturday, Mr. Trump popped into Manhattan for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event at Madison Square Garden. The reaction when he arrived: loud boos, and some cheers.

The president will give an address at the park. He was also slated to lay a wreath at a memorial inside the park, but the White House decided that he would not after all, according to a parade spokesman, Pat Smith.

Mr. Trump will not march in the parade, which begins by the park at 24th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and proceeds north to 48th Street. It kicks off at noon on Monday.

For decades, Mr. Trump lived in an eponymous skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. He began his unlikely presidential bid from its lobby. After winning, he moved to Washington, with only a few trips back to New York City.

But in late September Mr. Trump declared that his permanent residence was now his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

After news broke of the residency change last week, Mr. Trump, a Republican, said he had been treated “very badly” by top officials in New York, who are Democrats.

Mr. Trump spent a lifetime in New York City, and, for years, lived a life that could happen only here: Born in Queens to a self-made millionaire who made a fortune building affordable housing, the younger Mr. Trump expanded the family business and barged into the upper echelon of Manhattan’s wealthy establishment.

With every success and setback, Mr. Trump seemed to generate an endless supply of headlines, and a growing feeling that he was not fully embraced by the very people he was surrounded by in his city.

Mr. Trump is currently in a fight with the Manhattan district attorney over a subpoena for his personal and business tax records. And in Washington, Mr. Trump is trying to fend off an impeachment inquiry where he is accused of soliciting a foreign leader’s help in digging up dirt on a political rival.

The grand marshals for this year’s parade include three Medal of Honor recipients, a Marine who served in the Gulf War and a decorated Marine Infantry officer who served two tours in Iraq.

Douglas McGowan, the chairman of the United War Veterans Council, which organizes the annual parade, said in a statement, “This is a day when we put politics aside to focus on honoring our veterans, and to re-commit ourselves as a community to providing them with the services they have earned, the services they deserve and, for many, the services they were denied.”

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