Area code 646 was a controversial new overlay in For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. It is one of the five boroughs that comprise the City of New York. The borough is coterminous with New York County and includes the Island of Manhattan, as well as several other smaller islands... Manhattan - created because New York City was given area code 212 as it is the fastest area code that could be dialed with a rotary dial given the numbering plan constraints that 1 was not allowed as first or third digit. Today only the borough of Manhattan retains the 212 area code. The... Area code 212 and Area code 917 is the standard cell phone area code for New York City. It enjoys considerable prestige over the other New York City mobile phone area code, 646. Categories: North American area codes ... Area code 917 were running out of numbers. Many New Yorkers rebelled at the idea of a different area code, and for a time it was considered that "real" New Yorkers had 212 phone numbers. There was even a Seinfeld logo Seinfeld is a television sitcom, considered to be one of the most popular and influential of the 1990s in the U.S., to the point where it is often cited as epitomizing the self-obsessed and ironic culture of the decade. It stars Jerry Seinfeld playing a character... Seinfeld episode in which Elaine gets her phone number changed and realizes it is a 646 number. Later in the episode, she meets a man in the park and tries to exchange numbers; when he sees the area code he asks where 646 is ("is it in Jersey?") and refuses to take her number, making an excuse and leaving. More recently, 10-digit dialing has become required in This is an article about New York City; see also NYC, New York, and New York, New York. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005. New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States and is at... New York City, making 646 a more acceptable number.

External links

• New York City Area Code Map (http://www.whitepages.com/maps/NYC)