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The hotel claims that it is the oldest continuously used number in New York City. One example is PEnnsylvania 6-5000 or 212 PE6-5000, the number for the Hotel Pennsylvania in Midtown.
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#646 area code code#
Market reputationĪ business with a 212 area code is often perceived as having stability and roots in Manhattan, particularly if a number has been in service for many decades. Marble Hill's trunk is wired into the Bronx line, and it would have been too expensive for New York Telephone to rewire it. When the Bronx shifted to 718 in 1992, Marble Hill residents fought to stay in 212, but lost.
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It was physically connected to the Bronx in 1914 when the by-passed segment of the Harlem River was filled in. Marble Hill, although legally a part of Manhattan to this day, was geographically severed from Manhattan by the construction of the Harlem River Ship Canal in 1895. One Manhattan neighborhood, Marble Hill, is not in the 212/646 area code but the 718/347/929 codes. It is expected to be installed in 2017, as area codes 212 and 646 are expected to run out of numbers in the third quarter of 2017. In November 2015, area code 332 was assigned as an additional overlay area code for Manhattan's 212 Numbering Plan Area, the fourth serving the area and the seventh serving New York City. Area code 212 was overlaid with area code 646 in Manhattan on July 1, 1999, when new 917 mobile numbers became scarce. In 1992, the entire city was overlaid with area code 917, which was initially planned for only mobile service. In 1992, 718 was expanded to include the Bronx, reducing the 212 area to most of Manhattan. On September 1, 1984, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were split off in area code 718, leaving Manhattan and the Bronx in 212. AT&T assigned area codes to the large cities on the basis of the shortest dialing time to minimize resource contention and operator involvement given the rotary dial technology of the time, and thus New York received the shortest code. It served the entire five-borough area of New York City. Area code 212 was one of the original 86 area codes assigned by AT&T in 1947.