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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
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.
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]
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]
Transatlantic international direct dialing between New York City (212 area code) and London (01 STD code) was introduced in 1970, [9] with service extended to the whole of the US and the six largest UK cities in 1971. [10]
All it takes is a quick glance to know if the call is for real or not. The post Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone Numbers Guide appeared first on Reader's Digest.
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 ...