The overlay area code 917 was established in 1992 and was assigned mostly to mobile phone numbers as they burgeoned. The overlay 347 and 929 areas code took effect in 1999 and 2011, respectively.

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – New York City’s new area code will be 465, replacing four existing Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Marble Hill area codes. Soon, the 347, 718, 917 and 929 ...

Manhattan’s 212 became one of the nation’s first area codes in 1945. Then 917 came into being in 1992, before 646 was added.

All existing wireline and wireless telephone customers in the 347/718/917/929 numbering plan area would keep their current 10-digit phone number. The proposed area code would be assigned to new ...

In response, the commission directed all telephone companies in the 212/646/917 area code region to file an implementation plan for the 332 overlay within a nine-month network preparation schedule.

Calls between 332, 212,646 and 917 area codes are local calls. When area codes were created in 1957, the 212 area code originally encompassed all five boroughs of New York City.

The 212 area code is under attack! Those three little numbers may not be the perfect piece of affordable Manhattan ownership you thought they were. As Todd Shields & Scott Moritz reported in ...