As I have said before TP is a process (a very successful one) and needs to be administered in a very specific way. I don’t think it would work in this type of setting. Optimally, I think a visit to NY is your best bet. Finances and logistics are NOT a good reason for not coming, especially considering what’s at stake.
There is another bedieved option but I would need your email or you would need mine. If Avi didn’t answer you yet then you must have gotten a wrong address.