I bought a 2-in-1 that included the Drippin' Honey from Gurneys. The first time I tried, it complained that I was in NY, but then I tried the non-Deluxe version and it shipped. My only guess is that there's some obscure restriction that won't allow pears from a particular state be shipped to NY, and the deluxe ones are being grown in a different location than the regular ones. The Seckels have the same problem, but searching their website for "unable to ship to NY" those are the only two trees that show up.

Welcome to the East Coast, Michael in Chicago. I've travelled to and enjoyed many states, but I think my home state, NJ, is a pretty cool state. For your consideration, some information I gleaned from a talk on native plants presented yesterday to Monmouth County Master Gardeners: New Jersey is the third smallest state in the Union, but has 1,910 vascular plant species - more than states 11 times its size. New Jersey has five physiographic provinces, very rare. In the northwest is the ridge & valley region, then, stretching in bands essentially running northeast to southwest, the highlands region (with conditions similar to central Ohio) and piedmont region; below those, the inner coastal plain to the west, and, to the east, the outer coastal plain (with conditions similar to central Virginia). New Jersey is at a crossroads, or intersection, in the plant world. This is where southern plants pushing the limits often reach their northernmost limits ... and where northern plants reach their southernmost. There are also species here in NJ that are also found in Canada ... but not in New York or Connecticut, as their ancestors were carried down on the leading edge of the glacier, which stopped here in New Jersey. For anyone who likes to garden, this is pretty good stuff.

Since you posted this in the PA gardening forum, I will describe the options in PA. There is a bus company, Carl R. Bieber Tourways, that runs commuter buses from Reading, PA to the Port Authority Terminal in Manhattan frequently each day. This bus makes stops in Reading, Kutztown, Fogelsville and Hellertown (between Allentown and Bethlehem). Many professionals that work in NYC have moved into our area. Some commute daily. Some have a place where they can stay overnight in NYC a couple days each week. Some can work out of their home and commute into NYC a couple times each week. The service costs $10 to $15 with Reading being the most expensive and Hellertown being the least expensive. It takes 3 to 3.5 hours from Reading and less than 2 hours from Hellertown. The advantage of the Reading-Kutztown (Berks County) and Allentown-Bethlehem (Lehigh County) areas is they are in an area where the real estate values are among the lowest in the country and you can buy as much land as you want for gardening/landscaping. Our climate is Zone 6 but is becoming Zone 7 with global warming. We have almost 40 inches of rain each year that is split fairly uniformly over the entire year. We have cold winters and hot summers. We get about 30 inches of snow in the winter and thunderstorms in the summer. Kutztown is famous for its Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival each summer. The grocery market, post office, and hardware store where we shop all have hitching rails for the horse and buggies to tie up. There are many colleges in the area including Lehigh, Cedar Crest, Muhlenberg, DeSales, Kutztown, Albright, Alvernia, Penn State branch campuses and community colleges. We have what is probably the best grocery chain in the world, Wegman's. The Amish and Mennonites have fantastic inexpensive garden stands and nurseries. A great outing is a trip to the following: Conestoga Nursery - Closed Tuesday & Sunday (most every landscape plant) 310 Reading Rd, East Earl PA 17519-9964 717-445-4076 located on PA 625 1.5 miles north of PA 23 (near Shady Maple) Black Creek Greenhouses (annuals, perennials, water plants) 211 E Black Creek Rd, East Earl, PA 17519 717-445-5046 from Conestoga Nursery go north on PA 625 another 2.2 miles and turn right on Black Creek Road and go .4 miles. Shady Maple Smorgasbord 129 Toddy Dr, East Earl, PA 17519 717-354-8222 Shady Maple Smorgasbord is a huge Amish style buffet that is very popular. It is on PA 23 just .5 miles west of PA 625. It is located on top of the hill behind the Shady Maple Farm Market. The combination of the three make a great outing. We have lots of cultural opportunities with subscription series in Reading, Kutztown, Allentown and Bethlehem. We are only 2 hours from NYC and all it has plus we are only 1 hour from Philadelphia and all it has. We are 2 to 3 hours from the New Jersey beaches and Washington, DC. The Baltimore Aquarium and Harbor is a great place to visit when you live here. We have the Pocono Mountains with summer resorts and winter skiing. We belong to the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society and my wife belongs to a unit of the American Herb Society. It is a great area to garden and to live. Here is a link that might be useful: Bieber Bus runs to NYC

Last summer I took NY Waterway's package "cruise" to Kyukit, the Rockefeller estate in Tarrytown, NY. It's an all day thing. You bring your lunch and NY Waterway (see link below) does the rest. I'd say for $60 it was an OK deal, but you don't get much garden out of it. We really enjoyed Philipsburg Manor, included in the tour -- it's a working 17th century colonial farm, and it has an interesting vegetable garden and a corn mill. (We made cornbread from the meal we bought there, and it was very tasty!) I think the two gardens I'd recommend you visit, along with the ones you mentioned, are the New York Botanical Garden and the gardens at the Cloisters (a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). They're in the Bronx and very far northern Manhattan, in the vicinity of Wave Hill. Have a wonderful trip! Here is a link that might be useful: Tours on NY Waterway