Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
NPA Year Current region 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.
In 1951, the number of area codes grew to ninety: the State of New York gained area code 516 on Long Island, and Southern California received area code 714, to reduce the numbering plan area of Los Angeles. [23] Area code handbook issued by many telephone companies in 1962 to promote the newly introduced direct distance dialing.
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.
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]
Area codes in New York state; area codes 631 and 934 highlighted in darker yellow. Area codes 631 and 934 are the telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island. Area code 631 was created in 1999 in a split from 516; and 934 was added as an overlay in 2016.
A permissive dialing period for using either area code 212 or 718 in the affected area lasted until May 16, 1993. [3] On October 1, 1999, area code 347 was added as an overlay code to area code 718. On December 16, 2009, the New York Public Service Commission approved an additional overlay code for the 718/347 numbering plan area. [4]
Area codes 518 and 838. Area codes 518 and 838 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for eastern Upstate New York in the United States. 518 is one of the 86 original North American area codes created in 1947. Area code 838 was added to the 518 numbering plan area in 2017. The two area codes serve 24 counties and 1,200 ...
Originally, only eighty-six area codes were assigned. New Jersey received the first NPA code in the new system, area code 201. [27] The second area code, 202, was assigned to the District of Columbia. The allocation of area codes was readjusted as early as 1948 to account for inadequacies in some metropolitan areas.