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The three area codes form an overlay numbering plan, and are also overlaid by area code 917 of a numbering plan area that comprises the entirety of New York City. Area code 212 is the original code assigned for all of the city in 1947. After a restriction of 212 to just Manhattan in 1985, area code 646 was assigned to Manhattan in 1999.
212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 332, 646, and 917 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; overlaid by 680. 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; overlay of 845 332: 2017: New York City: Manhattan only; overlays with 212, 646, and 917 347: 1999
Area codes are also assigned for non-geographic purposes. The rules for numbering NPAs do not permit the digits 0 and 1 in the leading position. [1] Area codes with two identical trailing digits are easily recognizable codes (ERC). NPAs with 9 in the second position are reserved for future format expansion.
This makes the fastest-dialing area code 212 (5 total clicks), followed by 312 and 213 (6 clicks). The area code 605 is much slower than these, at 21 clicks. Many large US cities generally had fast-dialing area codes with the middle digit 1. Touch-tone dialing, introduced later, eliminated the wait.
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