VIEW NOT INCLUDED: An online vendor is selling sought-after 212 area codes, once a status symbol only available to those living in Manhattan. Reuters Anyone from the Deep South to the West Coast can ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (PIX11)– New Yorkers are still out to get ...

Tue, April 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM UTC Of course, area codes (the new, new "exchanges" of years past) have been changing for some time now. With phone number portability, geography and area codes no longer ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Start spreading the news. The "212" area code is slipping out of New York City thanks to Internet-based phone companies. The coveted digits that mean so much to so many are ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Move over 212, 646 and 917, because Manhattan will be adding a new area code in 2017. Joining the three mainstays will be 332, expected to be assigned to new customers in the second ...

A new area code was released to New Yorkers on Saturday — but no one wants it. Not one New Yorker has called for a 929 number, according to the North American Numbering Plan Administration. 929 joined ...

The looming arrival of a new Manhattan area code has triggered waves of dismay and anger online, while owners of the coveted original 212 area code swelled with pride on Thursday. The proliferation of ...

New York City’s iconic 212 area code, name-checked in songs and on TV shows such as "Seinfeld," is losing some of its exclusivity. On Thursday, the Federal Communication Commission gave ...

In today's edition of A NY Times Study In Rich People, a couple moving to New York from Boston yearns for "his-and-her" 212 area codes, because nothing says MANHATTAN like shelling out hundreds of ...

Sherri Littlefield wants a phone number with the 212 area code. “I think if people saw that, they would just immediately know, ‘Oh, she lives in New York City,’” Littlefield said. Littlefield is ...