I would stay away from a Meyer lemon tree. They are very temperamental and full of negative growth surprises. I would either get a Meiwa, fukushu or sunquat kumquat tree. No to calamondins or oranges except a trovita orange. Go with something on flying dragon rootstock. Grow something special that can't be bought at you grocery store. If you want just foliage plant a grapefruit seed and you will do fine.

Lemonade?

chose one of these and you will have a better chance

http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/tropicals/Citrus/

check the detailed information Link for each variety and buy some thing that does fair in wet soil and fair in shade. m These qualities are in detail for each variety they sell. The do a good job

I don't like it when people ask for a blanket recommendation. Tell us which varieties your interested in. Otherwise you might end up with a tree who's fruit you won't enjoy.

I'm in NYC as well. I'm growing key lime, meyer lemon and regular lemon from seed that I started this spring. So far so good, though I'm sure there will be challenges. They are on the window sill with SW exposure. I leave the window open rather than putting them on the fire escape. I'm treating this more as an experiment that I hope will work out.

In in NYC and I have a Key Lime and a Calamondin. (also a petite negra dwarf fig). They are both doing quite well (outdoors in the summer, sunny south-facing window + daylight spectrum lamp in the winter).

I must say my poor calamondin has had several sharp shocks -- shortly after I got it, it fell and got knocked clean out of its pot, then my cat bit a couple leaves, then last week it got accidentally weed-whacked on one side -- and is coming through them all like a champ. That's definitely a durable plant for a citrus. My lime has been a bit more finicky but its still doing quite well and has flowered twice and currently holding one limelet.

Both purchased as rooted cuttings from Logee's in the 2" pot size.

(My fig when it arrived was very root bound in a 4" pot and I shocked the hell out of it by root pruning and breaking up the root ball...then letting it sunburn (facepalm) but in the last 3 weeks its gone absolutely nuts and looks fab)

I have a tree you can have, no charge. How do you sent a pm on this forum?

Thanks everyone! Lots of good suggestions here, will mull them over!

Pip what is a "pm that you mentioned above.

pm = private message.

Pip

It is not possible to send a private message with Houzz. I posted my email address and asked the person to drop me a line so that I would have their email and then deleted my message to minimize the chance that it would fall into the hands of evil "Thrush" agents. I have a small network of people that can pass my email to others so I no longer have to post. The company that use to owned the garden web allowed for private exchange of email addresses between consenting registered members. This change of hands was a great loss to the community. If anyone has found a way, please let us know