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  2. Area codes 212, 646, and 332 - Wikipedia

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    For the next 37 years, New York City was one of the largest toll-free calling zones in North America. On February 1, 1984, in response to a request from New York Telephone, the New York Public Service Commission voted to create a second area code for New York City. The split was implemented in a way that divided the city's three million ...

  3. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]

  4. PEnnsylvania 6-5000 - Wikipedia

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    The first automated dial exchanges in the Bell System were deployed in 1919. [5] When seven-digit telephone numbers were first assigned in New York in 1920, [6] the three-letter four-number (3L-4N) system had represented the number in the format PENnsylvania 5000. Similar systems were used in Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

  5. List of New York area codes - Wikipedia

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    New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 332, and 917 680: 2017: Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlay of 315 716: 1947 Buffalo, Dunkirk-Fredonia, Olean, Jamestown, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and western New York; will be overlaid by 624 in 2024 718: 1984 New York City: all except Manhattan; overlays with 347 ...

  6. Original North American area codes - Wikipedia

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    Telephone dial number card of c.1948 with the local telephone number 4-5876 in Atlantic City, NJ, using the central office prefix 4, later converted to AT4 Face of a 1939 rotary telephone dial with the telephone number LA-2697, which includes the first two letters of Lakewood, New Jersey, as the central office prefix, later converted to LA6.

  7. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Graham Bell at the opening of the first New York – Chicago telephone line (October 18, 1892) Early months of 1879: The Bell Telephone Company is near bankruptcy and desperate to get a transmitter to equal Edison's carbon transmitter.

  8. More than 1 million will pack Times Square in NYC tonight ...

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    Times Square New Year's Eve celebration is in its 120th year. The tradition of thousands of people crowding to watch a shimmering ball be lowered in Times Square began in 1907, though the first ...

  9. Area codes 718, 347, and 929 - Wikipedia

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    For the first 37 years after the establishment of the North American Numbering Plan in 1947, all of New York City was a single numbering plan area (NPA), area code 212.In 1984, New York Telephone asked the New York Public Service Commission to divide New York City into multiple numbering plan areas to "prevent an impending exhaustion of telephone numbers."