New York Area Codes

New York is third most populous state of United States. New York is Middle Atlantic State and the Standard Time Zone used by the state is Eastern Time Zone. There are total fourteen area codes providing telephones services.
Major companies providing telephone services in New York are:

• BELLSOUTH TELECOMM INC DBA SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL
• CELLCO PARTNERSHIP DBA VERIZON WIRELESS - CA
• CITIZENS UTILITIES RURAL DBA FRONTIER UT RURAL
• COOK TELECOM, INC.
• MCIMETRO, ATS, INC.
• NETWORK SERVICES LLC
• NEW CINGULAR WIRELESS PCS, LLC - IL
• PACIFIC BELL
• SOUTHWESTERN BELL
• SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P.
• SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P.- AL
• TELEPORT COMMUNICATIONS GROUP - SAN FRANCISCO
• THE TELEPHONE CONNECTION OF LOS ANGELES, INC.
• TIME WARNER TELECOM OF CALIFORNIA, L.P.
• TIME WARNER TELECOM OF CALIFORNIA, LP - CA
• USA MOBILITY WIRELESS, INC.
• VERIZON CALIFORNIA INC.-CA (GTE)

Telephone area code used in New York City is 212 -- the code was created in 1947. At present, only the area of Manhattan keeps hold of the area code 212.
With the passage of time area code 212 was overlaid with area codes 646 and 917.

This area code is serving Central New York. it Code 315 extends from west of Syracuse to Little Falls, north to the Canadian border, east to Massena and south to near Cortland. Area code 315 is one of the original codes created in 1947.

Area code 347 serves two area codes as an overlay ? code 718 and code 917.  The Code 347 was created on 1st October, 1999 and is serving New York City regions. It was added as an overlay to area 718 and 917.

Area code 516 is telephone area code for New York City Region, New York ? Middle Atlantic State of United States. The area code was created in 1952. According to area code schemes of 1947 Nassau was assigned with a 914 area code. However it got split from area code 914 and assigned with new area code 516 in 1951.

Area Code 518 was created in 1947 for serving the New York State of United States. The particular code is considered as the largest area code of the New York State as it starts off from the eastern Mohawk Valley to the east side of Albany. Then it starts serving the Canadian border and ends up in the upper Hudson Valley.

It was created in 2002 and started serving Rochester and its surrounding areas. The Code 585 came into being as a result of area code 716 split and the areas previously using code 716 such as Rochester Area started using area code 716. Rochester is the major community being served by area code 585.

It was created in 1954 as a result in split of area codes 716 and 315. The code serves the south-central areas of New York - the Middle Atlantic State of Unites States.

It was created in 1999 as a result in split of area code 516 and it serves one of the Middle Atlantic States of United States - The State of New York. The particular code serves the areas located in Long Island - particularly the Suffolk County. The County of Suffolk was served by area code 516 until 1st November 1999. Then the code 516 split off and the Suffolk County was assigned with new area code 631.

It was created on 1st July 1999. The code is serving New York City Region. New area code 646 was created when area code 212 and code 917 were running out of possible combinations of phone numbers. Code 616 is used with landline numbers, mobile numbers and even with pagers.

It is one of the original area codes created in 1947 - it served the Western New York until 2002. In 2002, the code 716 split off and the new area with code 716 emerged. Rochester code 585 was allocated to Rochester Area.

It was created in 1984 for a New York City. At the time of its origin it was allocated to Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. However Bronx was also added in area 718 in 1992. Marble Hill section of Manhattan is also covered by area code 718.

It is used as telephone area code in Hudson Valley, New York - Middle Atlantic State of United States. The Code 845 was created on 5th June 2000 when area code 914 got split in order to fulfill exhausted demands of telephone lines. As a result of area code 914 was retained only by Westchester County.

It is one of the original area codes created in 1947. It covers the borders of Westchester County and the Hudson River completely. The code was split on 5th June, 2000 - before split the was covering Westchester along with counties of Delaware County, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland.

This area code has an honor of being the first most overlay area code in NANP (North American Numbering Plan). Some of the voice mail services also started using area code 917.