Sara Alessi

Got $5,500 a month to spend on rent? You'll find everything from one-bedrooms to three-bedrooms in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Ready to rent? Check out our How To Rent Guide ...and if the apartment you like requires a guarantor that you don't have, see if the landlord accepts Insurent, a guarantor solution from one of BrickUnderground's sponsors.

For $8,000 a month—a sum that sounds princely to many of us—the pickings are wide and varied, from a one-bedroom penthouse in SoHo to a four-bedroom triplex in Brooklyn. 

Ready to rent? Check out our How To Rent Guide ...and if the apartment you like requires a guarantor that you don't have, see if the landlord accepts Insurent, a guarantor solution from one of BrickUnderground's sponsors.

Though we may not have $10 million to spend on an apartment—still waiting to invent the next Facebook or win the lottery over here—we're pretty curious what that amount could buy someone who does. (And if that's you, bravo and this one's for you.) As it turns out, it’s quite a bit, including an eight-bedroom townhouse in Brooklyn.

Yes, a 10,000 a month rental budget falls on the higher (read: aspirational) end of the spectrum, but we wanted to find out just how much it would get us in this city. Our findings: everything from one- to three-bedrooms in Manhattan and Brooklyn.