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You’re not ordering flowers because you have extra time on your hands. You need them to arrive when you say they will, looking exactly how they should—whether that’s for a birthday you almost forgot, an apology that can’t wait, or a celebration that deserves something special.
That’s what same day flower delivery in Greenwich Village should do. No guessing if they’ll show up. No wondering if the arrangement will match the photo. Just fresh blooms, hand-selected that morning, delivered to the right address at the right time.
We’ve been doing this long enough to know what matters: the roses need to open over the next few days, not arrive half-dead. The vase needs to look intentional, not like someone grabbed whatever was nearby. And if you’re sending flowers to someone’s office or apartment in the Village, they need to arrive during a window that actually works—not whenever the driver feels like it.
Columbia Midtown Florist has been operating in Manhattan for generations. We’re not a national chain with a local warehouse—we’re a family business that sources flowers the way you’d expect a real florist to: directly from growers, inspected by hand, arranged by people who’ve been doing this for years.
Greenwich Village has more flower delivery options than almost anywhere else in the country. That’s not an exaggeration—NYC has over 150 florists competing for your attention. But most of them are either too expensive for what you get, or too cheap to trust. We’re somewhere in the middle: high-quality flowers, fair pricing, and service that doesn’t disappear the second you place your order.
We’ve worked with everyone from NYU students sending flowers home to production teams needing arrangements on set within the hour. That range matters because it means we understand urgency, budgets, and what “good enough” actually looks like when someone’s counting on you.
You can order through our website, call us directly, or stop by our Midtown location at 3 West 51st Street. If you’re ordering online, you’ll see what’s available that day—not a catalog of arrangements we might be able to make if the flowers come in. What you see is what we have, and it’s all fresh.
Once your order’s placed, we confirm the delivery window. Same-day delivery in Greenwich Village usually means within 3-5 hours, depending on when you order and where it’s going. If you need it faster, call us. We’ve assembled arrangements in under 10 minutes for people in a bind, and we’ll tell you up front if we can make it happen.
After delivery, you’ll get confirmation. If there’s an issue—wrong address, no one home, building won’t accept deliveries—we contact you immediately. No waiting until end of day to find out your flowers are sitting in a truck somewhere. You’ll know what’s happening because we’re the ones handling it, not a third-party courier service that doesn’t care about your order.
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Every arrangement starts with flowers we’ve inspected that morning. Roses, lilies, orchids, seasonal blooms—whatever you order comes from our current inventory, not a supplier three states away. That’s why same-day delivery works: the flowers are already here, already fresh, already ready to go.
You’re also getting someone who knows Greenwich Village. We deliver to NYU dorms, walk-ups with no buzzer systems, office buildings with strict receiving hours, and residential addresses where the doorman needs specific instructions. If you’ve ever had flowers left on a stoop in the rain or returned to sender because the driver didn’t want to figure out the building, you know why this matters.
Greenwich Village has one of the highest concentrations of flower buyers in the city. People here expect quality, and they expect it fast. We’ve built our process around that: fresh inventory every morning, delivery routes optimized for the Village and surrounding areas, and a team that knows the difference between “as soon as possible” and “by 5 PM.”
Whether you’re sending a dozen roses for an anniversary, a sympathy arrangement to a family in the West Village, or a corporate order for an event space near Washington Square Park, the process is the same. You tell us what you need, we confirm we can do it, and then we do it. No upselling. No surprises. Just flowers that show up looking like they should.
Yes, but it depends on when you order and where the flowers are going. If you place an order before 2 PM, same-day delivery is almost always possible. After that, it gets tighter—but we’ve made it work as late as 4 PM for addresses in Greenwich Village.
The key is calling us instead of just ordering online. Our website will tell you if same-day is available, but if you’re cutting it close, a phone call lets us give you a real answer based on our current delivery schedule. We’re not going to promise something we can’t deliver, but we’ll also do everything we can to make it happen if it’s physically possible.
If same-day won’t work, we’ll tell you that up front and offer next-day delivery instead. You won’t find out at 6 PM that your flowers didn’t make it.
You don’t, unless you’re working with a florist who’s arranging them by hand that day—which is what we do. The photos on our site show real arrangements we’ve made, not stock images from a corporate catalog. When you order a dozen roses, you’re getting a dozen roses, arranged in a vase that makes sense for the size and style you picked.
That said, flowers are seasonal. If you order something in January that requires peonies, we’ll tell you they’re not available and suggest an alternative. We’re not going to substitute whatever’s cheapest and hope you don’t notice. You’ll know what you’re getting before we charge your card.
The other thing that matters: our flowers are cut fresh and delivered the same day. They’re not sitting in a warehouse for three days before they ship. That’s why they last longer and look better when they arrive—they’re actually fresh, not just “fresh enough” to survive shipping.
We contact you. If the delivery address is a residence and no one answers, our driver will call the phone number on the order. If we can’t reach you, we’ll try the recipient. If that doesn’t work, we’ll bring the flowers back and contact you to reschedule.
For office deliveries, we leave them with reception or a doorman if the building allows it. For apartment buildings, same thing—if there’s a doorman or secure package room, we’ll leave them there and confirm delivery with you. If it’s a walk-up with no one home, we’re not leaving $75 worth of flowers in a hallway.
This is one of those things that separates a real florist from a delivery app. We’re not just dropping off a box and moving on. If there’s an issue, we handle it the same day—not three days later when you finally get a customer service email.
We deliver across all five boroughs, but Greenwich Village is one of our core areas because it’s close to our Midtown location and we know the neighborhood well. If you’re sending flowers to the West Village, East Village, SoHo, or anywhere nearby, delivery is straightforward and usually happens within a few hours.
For deliveries in other boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island—we can still do same-day in most cases, but the timing depends on our route schedule. If you need flowers delivered to Williamsburg by 3 PM, call us in the morning and we’ll confirm if it’s doable.
The farther out you go, the more important it is to order early. We’re not going to promise same-day delivery to Staten Island if you order at 4 PM, but if you order at 10 AM, we’ll make it happen. Transparency matters more than telling you what you want to hear.
Yes. If you have something specific in mind—certain colors, certain flowers, a particular style—call us and we’ll talk through what’s possible. Custom arrangements take more time than our standard options, but if you’re ordering for a wedding, a corporate event, or something where the details really matter, that’s what we’re here for.
The easiest way to do this is by phone. You’ll talk to someone who actually arranges flowers, not a call center rep reading from a script. We’ll ask what you’re looking for, what your budget is, and what the occasion is, and then we’ll tell you what we can do. If your vision requires flowers we don’t have in stock, we’ll let you know how much lead time we need to source them.
Custom work is one of the reasons we’ve been able to supply flowers for film and TV production in NYC. Those projects need specific looks, often with very little notice, and they need someone who can execute without a lot of back-and-forth. If you need that level of service for a personal order, we can do it—you just need to give us a little more information up front.
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