
Teleflora's Kiss Of The Rose
$39· 22 florists
Verified studios deliver red-rose and romantic arrangements same-day across Melrose (10451, 10455) — surprise sends to the Melrose Commons towers, homes off Melrose Avenue, and workplace drops in The Hub. Long-stem roses and lush romantic hand-tied from $74.95. 2 PM ET cutoff.
Every order goes to a real studio — hand-arranged, never warehoused. Each carries their own catalog, style, and signature designs.
Compare ratings, prices, and same-day cutoff times across all 5 studios. The closest verified shop to your recipient gets surfaced first.
Real product photos, real prices — no warehouse markup, no surprise fees. The florist hand-arranges in-house from their own stems.
Order before 2PM ET and the studio's own driver delivers the same business day. Most orders land within 3 hours.
“Sent two dozen red roses to my girlfriend at her building in Melrose Commons for our first Valentine's together. The driver coordinated through the intercom and left them at the lobby desk so they were waiting when she got home. Lush and bold, $155. She sent me a photo the second she saw them. Perfect.”
“Surprised my wife at her job near The Hub. Delivered to reception with her name and a sealed card mid-day, exactly as I asked. Classic dozen red roses in a vase, $95, elegant and romantic. She was completely surprised and her coworkers loved it. Discreet and beautifully timed.”
“Ordered a romantic arrangement for my partner at our apartment off Melrose Avenue. Roses with lilies, generous and full, delivered on time to the door. Beautiful for the price. Would have liked a bit longer stems but it looked stunning and the surprise landed perfectly.”
Romantic sends in Melrose are all about the surprise, and the South Bronx does surprise with warmth. The neighborhood is the Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Mexican civic core organized around The Hub, where East 149th Street meets Third Avenue, Melrose Avenue, and Willis Avenue, and a love-and-romance order here usually lands at a home in one of the Melrose Commons and urban-renewal towers along Melrose Avenue and Elton Avenue, or at a sweetheart's workplace in The Hub as a mid-day surprise. A romantic delivery to the residential towers routes through the building intercom or lobby desk, timed for the evening so it's waiting when a partner gets home; a surprise desk drop to an office or storefront along the East 149th Street corridor goes to reception with a named recipient and a sealed card. The community's warm, generous style favors the classic bold romantic look — long-stem red roses, a lush two-dozen mix, roses with lilies — over the minimalist editorial arrangement, and the studios build to that taste.
Because no Melrose-based studio anchors the marketplace yet, love-and-romance volume is covered same-day from the surrounding Bronx and cross-borough grid — honestly, and by partners among the highest-rated on the platform. Riverdale Florist runs down the Grand Concourse from the north Bronx for Melrose same-day and builds the bold red-rose romantic look the community favors. Marine Florists (4.9★, 1,190 reviews — the marketplace's highest count) and Greenpoint Florist NY (4.9★, 108) reach Melrose from Brooklyn over the Third Avenue and Willis Avenue bridges for the larger premium and date-night arrangements, and Starbrightnyc (4.8★, 498) brings the Manhattan editorial garden-rose look up from Chelsea. Pricing on Melrose romantic bouquets runs below the Manhattan average: classic dozen roses $75-125, premium two-dozen and long-stem $125-185, and editorial signature romance $185-315. The Melrose Commons towers, homes off Melrose Avenue, and The Hub workplaces are all on the daily route.
Melrose Commons and the urban-renewal towers along Melrose Avenue and Elton Avenue — romantic surprises coordinated through the building intercom or lobby desk, timed for the evening so the roses are waiting at home.
The Hub storefronts and offices where East 149th Street meets Third Avenue, Melrose Avenue, and Willis Avenue — discreet surprise romantic desk drops to a sweetheart's workplace with a named recipient and a sealed card.
The residential blocks along Melrose Avenue and Elton Avenue toward the Mott Haven border — front-door and building-desk romantic deliveries timed to the end of the day.
Sending romance to another South Bronx or upper-Manhattan neighborhood? We cover Mott Haven, Port Morris, the Concourse, Fordham, Morris Park, and East Harlem same-day with the same discreet surprise timing and building-intercom coordination Melrose runs on.