Manhattan Is Too Good For The 929

The New York Public Service Commission has officially announced that come April 16th, New York City will be getting a sixth area code to join 212, 718, 646, 917 and 347. The new code, 929, has been assigned to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, and will require "all local calls within and between the 718 and 347 area codes and the new 929 area code to be dialed by using 1+10 digit dialing." This will just make the 212 area code that much cooler.

As with anything that forces old people to do things differently, the kids are to blame. Wayne Milby of the North American Numbering Plan Administration told the Post, "There are so many new uses for telephone numbers. It used to be you had a line in your home and a line for your kids. Now every child has a cellphone." We anticipate complications when guys start getting 'hos in different area codes who happen to live on the same block.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on December 5, 2010 2:09 PM

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diablofreak

i call dips on 929 292 9292

Guest

666 would be awesome.

SFNY

Many phone numbers for the University of San Francisco have the prefix 666. Granted it's not the area code, but it's still somewhat funny anyway as it's a Jesuit-run school.

Guest

i'm so applying for that school. if i can borrow any more money to go back to school that is...

jaycjay

Could probably happen, but so far there are no area codes with the same digit repeated three times assigned for normal use in the North American Numbering Plan.

Guest

i bet you certain people would LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE to have 777.

jaycjay

"will require "all local calls within and between the 718 and 347 area codes and the new 929 area code to be dialed by using 1+10 digit dialing." This will just make the 212 area code that much cooler."

If you have ever made a phone call in NYC, you know that 1+10 dialing has been in effect here for decades. That announcement isn't saying that's a change, in fact it says directly: "This dialing pattern is already in effect in the New York City area."

Yes, even for those precious 212 numbers.

jibbly

For some reason I remember the 1+10 dialing for the 718 area code to have gone into effect sometime during the early 90s. I think I used to be able to call my friends in Queens from Staten Island without dialing 1+718 for a while...maybe 1991 or 1992?