It is a surprise and they live in one of the buildings by the PATH station.
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Then add one line to the order and the surprise survives. The towers on the redevelopment blocks between the Harrison PATH station and Cape May Street run lobby desks that will sign for a delivery from anyone, and their package systems then send the resident an automatic notification — often naming the shop, sometimes naming the sender. Ask instead for the driver to call or text the recipient directly on arrival, and write that it should not be left with the desk. Give a time when they will genuinely be in. Those buildings honour the instruction; they just do not apply it by default.
They live in a walk-up and they work in Manhattan. What time should it arrive?
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After five, and with a human name attached. A Harrison commuter is out of the house from before eight and back somewhere between six and seven on the PATH, and the three-family houses in the grid behind Harrison Avenue have no desk, no porter and no safe place on the step. A midday delivery to that address is a driver standing in front of a panel with three surnames on it and nothing to do. Either book the evening slot or name a relative, a neighbour or a ground-floor tenant who will take it in. If it is a surprise, use their number in the order rather than the recipient's.
Can I send it to where they work instead?
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Often that is the better answer for a Harrison recipient, because they are at work when the driver is out. If they work across the river in Newark — Audible at One Washington Park, Panasonic on Two Riverfront Plaza, the Prudential tower on Broad Street, Horizon on 3 Penn Plaza East, PSEG at 80 Park Plaza — the delivery lands in business hours and gets carried home on the train, which many people enjoy more than a quiet doorstep. You will need the floor and the department, because every one of those buildings screens at the lobby. If they commute into Manhattan, send to the Harrison address for the evening instead; a bouquet does not enjoy a rush-hour PATH car.
Will flowers be left outside if nobody answers?
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Not in winter, and that is deliberate. A bouquet left in an unheated vestibule or on a Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard step in February is ruined within the hour, so a careful driver takes it back rather than leaving it — which turns a late delivery into a failed one and a redelivery the next day. In milder months a shop may leave an arrangement in a sheltered spot if you have authorised it in the order, but the reliable fix in any season is the same: a phone number that will be answered, or a named receiver. It is the cheapest insurance available on this page.
Can I get red roses, and what will they cost?
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The listed arrangements in this selection start at $32.49. Delivery charges, taxes and optional extras are confirmed for the selected florist and recipient before payment.
Can you deliver to a restaurant or a hotel room?
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To a hotel, yes, with the guest's full name as it appears on the reservation — the closest rooms are the Robert Treat up on Park Place and the Hilton built onto Newark Penn Station, with the Hyatt Regency at Exchange Place and the W in Hoboken a short ride from the Harrison platform. To a restaurant, only if you have arranged it yourself. The dinner for a Harrison couple is usually on Ferry Street in the Ironbound, five minutes over the Jackson Street Bridge, and those are independent houses with their own Saturday-night rules. Call them, get a name, then put that name in the order.
I am planning to propose. What should I actually do with the flowers?
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Keep them out of the moment and put them where the evening ends. Carrying an arrangement around Harrison, onto a PATH train or into a restaurant is an hour of holding a vase and explaining yourself. The version that works is a delivery to the apartment timed for the afternoon, received by a friend or a relative you have let in on it, so the flowers are standing there when the two of you come back through the door. Give the shop that person's phone number, not your partner's, and write the card yourself — they will have it in their hand for the rest of the evening.