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You need flowers to arrive today, not tomorrow. Maybe it’s an anniversary you almost forgot, an apology that can’t wait, or a corporate event that needs to look right when guests walk in.
When you order before 2 PM on weekdays, your arrangement gets delivered the same day anywhere in Manhattan below 100th Street. Our drivers know which buildings require lobby drop-off, which doormen prefer advance notice, and how to navigate Midtown during lunch rush without being late.
Every arrangement gets made fresh that morning in our shop at 3 West 51st Street. We source flowers daily from the wholesale district, so what you’re sending isn’t sitting in a cooler from last week. You get confirmation when it’s delivered, so you’re not left wondering if it actually showed up.
Columbia Midtown Florist has been operating from the same Midtown location for decades. We’re not a national brand that contracts out to local shops. We’re the local shop.
Half the hotels in Manhattan use our service because we show up when we say we will. Corporate clients rely on us for weekly lobby arrangements because we understand that consistency matters when your reception area is the first thing clients see.
Our team handles everything in-house. Your order doesn’t get passed to a third party or assembled in a warehouse across the river. It’s made here, by florists who’ve worked in Manhattan long enough to know what holds up in a high-rise office and what wilts by noon.
You place an order online or by phone. If it’s before 2 PM on a weekday, it goes out the same day to addresses below 100th Street in Manhattan.
Our florists gather fresh flowers from that morning’s sourcing and build your arrangement in our shop. No pre-made boxes. No assembly line. Each arrangement is put together by hand based on what’s freshest that day.
Once it’s ready, one of our drivers loads it into a climate-controlled vehicle and delivers it directly to the address you provided. They know the building protocols, the security desks, the loading dock schedules. If there’s an issue with access, they call to sort it out instead of leaving it with a neighbor.
You get a confirmation once it’s been delivered. If something goes wrong, you’re talking to the same people who made and delivered it—not a call center in another state.
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You’re not just getting flowers dropped at a door. You’re getting an arrangement designed for Manhattan spaces—offices with aggressive AC, hotel lobbies with specific aesthetic standards, residential buildings where doormen have seen every delivery service mess up.
For corporate clients, we handle weekly arrangements that keep your lobby or reception area looking consistent. We know which flowers last longest under office lighting and which ones start drooping by Wednesday.
For events, we coordinate timing so arrangements arrive when your venue is ready, not three hours early when nobody’s there to receive them. Our team has worked with venues across Manhattan long enough to know loading dock hours, freight elevator availability, and setup windows.
If you’re sending flowers to someone’s apartment, we navigate the building access issues that trip up most delivery services. Our drivers know which buildings allow lobby drop-off, which require buzzing up, and which need advance coordination with the concierge desk.
Yes, if you order before 2 PM on a weekday and the delivery address is in Manhattan below 100th Street. That cutoff exists because it takes time to source fresh flowers, build the arrangement by hand, and get it delivered across Midtown during business hours.
Orders placed after 2 PM or on weekends get delivered the next business day. We don’t promise same-day and then push it to the next morning—if we say it’s going out today, it goes out today.
For addresses above 100th Street or in the outer boroughs, delivery typically happens the next day. Manhattan below 100th is where our same-day guarantee applies because our Midtown location gives us the proximity to make it work reliably.
We source flowers every morning from New York’s wholesale flower district. What gets delivered today was purchased fresh this morning, not pulled from inventory that’s been sitting in a cooler since last week.
Each arrangement is made to order in our shop. We don’t pre-make dozens of identical bouquets and store them. When your order comes in, a florist pulls the freshest available stems and builds it specifically for that delivery.
Our delivery vehicles are climate-controlled to protect arrangements from New York’s weather extremes—summer heat, winter cold, surprise rain. Flowers don’t sit in a hot truck or get blasted by freezing wind. They stay at optimal temperature from our shop to the recipient’s door, which is why they last longer once they’re delivered.
Our drivers handle building access issues daily. They know which Manhattan buildings allow lobby drop-off with the doorman, which require the recipient to come down, and which have concierge services that accept deliveries.
If nobody’s available and the building won’t accept the package, the driver calls the recipient to coordinate. If that doesn’t work, they call you to decide whether to leave it with building staff, attempt redelivery, or choose another solution.
We don’t just leave flowers outside a door in a Manhattan hallway and hope for the best. If there’s a delivery issue, it gets handled in real time by someone who’s standing there, not a customer service rep reading notes from a different state. You get updated if something changes, and we make sure the arrangement actually reaches the person it’s meant for.
Yes. A significant portion of our business is corporate clients and events throughout Manhattan. We’ve been doing this long enough that we know the logistics that trip up most florists.
For corporate offices, we handle weekly arrangements for lobbies, reception desks, and conference rooms. We deliver on the same day each week, coordinate with building staff, and make sure arrangements are swapped out before the old ones start looking tired.
For events, we work directly with your venue to coordinate delivery timing, setup requirements, and any specific design requests. Our team has delivered to hotels, restaurants, corporate event spaces, and private venues across Manhattan. We know loading dock schedules, freight elevator access, and how to work around venue setup crews. You get one point of contact who manages everything from order to installation, so you’re not coordinating between multiple vendors.
National services take your order and contract it out to a local florist—sometimes us, sometimes whoever’s available. You’re paying them to be the middleman. When something goes wrong, you’re calling a customer service center that has to call the actual florist to figure out what happened.
When you order directly from us, there’s no middleman. The florist who makes your arrangement works in our shop. The driver who delivers it works for us. If there’s a problem, you’re talking to the people who can actually fix it.
We also control quality and timing because we’re not waiting for another company to relay your order. It comes straight to us, gets made in our shop, and goes out with our drivers who know Manhattan. That’s why we can guarantee same-day delivery when you order before 2 PM—we’re not dependent on a third party’s schedule or availability.
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