‘I spent $46,000 for a good night’s sleep!’

When Notoya Green glanced at the clock in the nursery, saw it was 5:30 a.m. and realized she'd had exactly zero minutes of sleep that night, something had to give.

The TriBeCa mother of 3-month-old triplets didn't care how much money it would cost — for the sake of her sanity, she HAD to get some shut-eye.

"Going without sleep is a dangerous place to be," recalls Green, a lawyer who is now a stay-at-home mom.

"There was no way my husband, Frederick, or I could function without it."

Enter Alicia Wilson, 36, an experienced baby nurse, who took over the Greens' night shift — at least for six nights of the week — and restored at least some semblance of normalcy to their regular sleep patterns.

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On a quest to catch some shut-eye, Steve and Susan Koch of Queens plunked down $46,000 for a peaceful place to sleep, including soundproof ceilings, double-paned glass windows, black-out shades and a white noise machine.

Wilson charged $300 per night and, since she stayed with the family for 12 weeks, the total cost amounted to more than $20,000.

But Notoya Green has no regrets.

"Alicia was worth every single penny," says the 37-year-old, who now blogs at tripletsintribeca.com.

Whether they're shelling out thousands for night nurses, high-end mattresses or soundproofing, lately it seems that sleep-starved New Yorkers will do — and spend — just about anything in the pursuit of better shut-eye.

When his unpredictable upstairs neighbors came home at various times, causing him to lose up to four hours of sleep a night, Eric Redlinger was going crazy.

"I was in a bad mood, creating bad energy — it was really crucial to my relationship with my wife," says Redlinger, 41, who lives in a duplex condo in Williamsburg.

He tried sleeping in different parts of the apartment and even went so far as to pay his neighbors to install thousands of dollars worth of plush carpeting in their home, but nothing stuck. (The costly carpeting didn't work for his neighbor — their dog took an aversion to it.)

Eventually, after several months of lying awake in bed, Redlinger, a musical performer, invested in 600 square feet of new soundproofed ceiling for $10,000.

"It was really expensive for us and not something we took lightly, but it was totally life-changing; it made it possible to stay," he says.

Devin O'Brien, an architect who started Brooklyn Insulation Company seven years ago, says soundproofing requests have gone through the roof in the past several years, with business doubling each year.

"It's the culture and density of NYC that lends itself to a need for soundproofing," says O'Brien. "Sometimes I feel like the mediator and therapist between clients and their neighbors."

While his costs are admittedly steep — his jobs typically range anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 — people accept the sky-high bills, according to O'Brien.

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