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Area code Year Current region 212: 1947 New York City: Manhattan only; component of 212/332/646 and 917 overlays 315: 1947 Syracuse, Utica, Watertown, and north central New York; component of 315/680 overlay 329: 2023: Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 332: 2017
The practice of creating an intercity board or agency to determine the limits of a metropolitan area has become common. [citation needed] A number of proposals have been created to create similar metropolitan arrangements in other areas of the country. In 1997, Cebu created the Metropolitan Cebu Development Council (MCDC), which was renamed the ...
Area code 917 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for the five boroughs of New York City: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. It is an overlay code to all numbering plan areas (NPAs) in the city, and was intended to serve cellular , pager , and voicemail applications in the city.
Texas (San Antonio metropolitan area) November 1, 1992: split of 512; 1997: split three ways to create 830 and 956; 2017: overlaid by 726; 211: Not assignable; N11 code for community services, local/regional information service 212: New York (New York City: Manhattan only, except for Marble Hill) 1947: created for all of New York City
The New York metropolitan area is home to about 570,000 self-identifying gay and bisexual people, the largest in the country. [279] [280] Same-sex sexual activity between consenting adults has been legal in New York since 1980's New York v. Onofre case, which invalidated the state's sodomy law. [281]
During November 2015, area code 332 was assigned as a third overlay area code for Manhattan, [9] [10] the fourth serving the area and the seventh serving New York City. Area code 332 became active on June 10, 2017, [11] [12] as area code 212 was expected to become depleted of numbers during the third quarter of 2017, [13] [14] and 646 is ...
Marble Hill, a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, is physically located on the U.S. mainland, adjacent to the Bronx. Despite being legally a part of the borough of Manhattan, [20] per the Greater New York Charter of 1897, the neighborhood of Marble Hill is excluded from the Manhattan numbering plan areas 212, 646, and 332, instead using the 718, 347, and 929 area codes. [20]
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...