NYC Apartments for Rent from $4,500 to $5,000

Union Square South doesn't have the instant name recognition of such Manhattan mega-addresses as Broadway or Fifth Avenue, but it's a quintessentially New York address just steps from the best of downtown Manhattan living. With the energy of Greenwich Village to the south, the gracious quiet of Gramercy and Flatiron to the north, and Union Square Park right across the street, 1 Union Square South offers a commanding view of the park and as central a Greenwich Village location as can be imagined.

45 Wall, a 28-story, 493,000-square-foot wedding cake apartment building, has a spectacular location near historic Federal Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, and some of the world's greatest skyscrapers in the heart of the Financial District.

This huge, red-brick, environmentally friendly rental complex in Clinton was designed by Fox & Fowle and opened in 2007. The attractive, 23-story complex stretches from 51st to 53rd Streets west of Tenth Avenue. The complex has 23,000-square-feet of retail space and space for two non-profit theaters, and two landscaped through-block arcades. Many of the units have balconies and the buildings have some slanted rooflines and angled sides.

Thriving in one of Manhattan's classic residential neighborhoods, Carnegie Park has it all. There are museums to muse in and bookstores to browse, gourmet shops to raid and celebrated restaurants for dining. Carnegie Park's warm, sumptuous lobby of mahogany, marble and granite, is attended twenty-four hours a day with concierge service and a doorman.