Area code 917

The blue area is New York State (outside the City of New York); the red area is area code 917 and overlay

Area code 917 is a telephone area code for all of the five boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx). It was the first cellular/pager/voicemail area code for the city and is an overlay to Manhattan's 212/646 and the other four boroughs' 718/347/929. Occasionally, 917 is also assigned to landlines (most commonly in Manhattan, in large part because of the particularly severe shortage of numbers there).

Introduced in 1992, area code 917 is the first overlay area code in the North American Numbering Plan. When it was established, all cellphones in New York City were switched to 917, freeing up the phone numbers for additional landlines.

Shortly after its implementation, the FCC announced that any new area codes going forth cannot be "service-specific", but did grandfather 917 from that rule.

See also

• List of New York area codes
• List of NANP area codes
• North American Numbering Plan

External links

• North American Numbering Plan Administration
• NANPA Area Code Map of New York
• Whitepages Area code Map
• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 917 Area Code

New York area codes: 212, 315, 332, 347, 516, 518, 585, 607, 631, 646, 680, 716, 718, 845, 914, 917, 929, 934
	North: 914, 845, 203/475
West: 201/551, 862/973, 908	area code 212/347/646/718/917/929	East: 516, 631
	South: 732/848
New Jersey area codes: 201, 551, 609, 732, 848, 856, 862, 908, 973
Connecticut area codes: 203, 475, 860, 959