Calling AREA CODE (212)

I bought a 100-number block of 212 numbers, 00 to 99, to get a 00 for my office, I don't use them all, just a fraction actually. Maybe I should sublet them....

Like most everything, there is a black market in phone numbers.

You can buy a 212 area code for a cell phone on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=212+area+code

This one is for w67thst:

BE THE COOLEST GUY EVER, WITH 212-300-FU*K FOR A PHONE NUMBER!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Manhattan-Area-Code-SIM-212-Phone-Number-212-300-DUAL_W0QQitemZ270461627242QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSIM_Cards?hash=item3ef8c4eb6a

Hey modern... What a modern idea.
Thank you.
Maybe you should start subleasing your digits ;)

area codes...zip codes....avenues...streets....
addresses...age....salary...credit score...subway lines...
floor...rent .... maintenance...

Ain't nothin' but a number? Not in this city.

you can't buy a phone number, as the number belongs to the phone company, not the customer. These ads a re a scam.

Why is The President always the voice of reason?
Ahem, I mean the SE Prez...

How funny to come up with phone numbers for the lot of you...
I didn't have west67th for that number...

I was thinking.....hmmmmn
LOL

But I already have 212-200-Fu*k, snatched it up as soon as it was available.

You wanna talk insane with numbers ask the Chinese in hong kong. Some dipshit spent $50k (?) for a license plate number. What's funny is I remember it being a crazy $ but can't remember the plate number, some lucky number in chinese. It translates into Arabic as dumb motherfu$ker.

can you say $14.5mm

http://www.shoplicenseplates.com/articles.html

How do you say dipshit in Arabic?

Isn't it easier to buy self-esteem at some designer clothes boutique?

Also, isn't this really really passe? This was an issue years ago but now so many cool groovy peopto do not have 212 that it seems irrelevant.

Yeah Jim, 212 is soooo five minutes ago. 646 is where its at now!

Oh no...I'm sorry :(
It's ok if you don't have a (212), I didn't mean to insult anyone.
Of course other numbers are just as groovy and cool.

What would Nina Simone say?

sue me, i want a little sugar in my bowl?

I saw in Roll Call this morning that within the Health Care bill, Nancy Pelosi inserted a add on user tax for phone bills with area codes of 212. She says it is just a small tax of $10 per month. But it's very impoortant that rich NYers pay their "fair" share.

Mr. President (funny, I used those words in person a few weeks ago on a golf course).

The ebay listings are not scams. Once you get the chip you can reassign the number to yourself. Theoretically it still "belongs" to the phone company, but you have use of it as long as you want.

http://newyorkhabit.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/the-coveted-212-area-code/

As to 212 numbers, like I said, there is a black market. I paid a one-time charge of $3k to get a 100 number block for my business, it is now mine to use. It was a marketing expenses, in my view, it adds stability to a business, as everyone knows 212. And since I use VoIP phones, my out of state employees could be assigned 212 numbers too, so nobody even knows they are based elsewhere.

With cell phones, you can also make them search for numbers for you, no extra charge. When I added a new blackberry and needed a new number, my assistant made them look for a 646 area code (harder to get now, they usually give 347), and she got me a number ending in zero and comprised of nothing but 4s and 0s so it is easy to remember (as I usually forget my cell numbers and have to look it up on the phone).

noDiggity, i've had a 646 number since 2000. the phone company said it was impossible to transfer my own phone number from east 23rd to west 23rd, although 5 years earlier they transferred it from way west 49th to east 23rd.

i've gotten over it. although i was pissed at the time.

Wasn't there a seinfeld episode about this?

I had no trouble getting a 212 number in 2000. I got a new 212 number in 2003 when I moved (they couldn't transfer numbers bet. exchanges at that time). I have kept that 212 number ever since.

http://212areacode.com/

I really was just feeling nostalgia for when I would make a "long distance" call from Long Island to my grandparents in Greenpoint, Brooklyn back in the day...when it was still 212 there! They were the coolest people I knew, and they loved, lived and breathed NYC, and I was thinking how happy they would be that I am in the city. (something rare in my family)
I'll get over it too...I guess.

Did you know that NYC was given 212 cuz it was the fastest to dial on a rotary phone?

If you get a real land line from a real telephone company (Verizon), you shouldn't have any problem.

"http://212areacode.com/"

Yeah, but those are all "phony" telephone numbers. There was never a "300" exchange in Manhattan.

matt, in 2000 i had a "real" land line from Verizon. and i was told that for my address there were no 212 numbers available.

noDiggity, fun fact.

Matt, is, as usual, wrong again. You generally can't get a landline 212 number anymore.

you can always rely on matt to be wrong.

modern, I learned about these types of services when my teenage niece had some friends from those Midwestern square states w/ 212 cell phone numbers. Apparently, it is the "in" thing to do now for these girls to buy 212 numbers on eBay for their cell phones. I wonder if this may be contributing to the current shortage of 212 numbers...

Just a point of information--I don't mean to defend matt (I don't usually even like what he says), but I have a feeling that he *might* have a point here. Several colleagues recently got moved to Manhattan due to my employer's consolidation efforts, and based on what they have been saying, people generally seem to have trouble getting 212 numbers from TWC or RCN but not so much from Verizon (some of them actually went w/ Verizon for that very reason). Maybe each carrier has its share of available area codes to release? Correct me if I am wrong.

And, yes, I remember over 10 years ago when you could no longer get a 212 number, even from Bell Atlantic/NYNEX!

nyc212: it must be area/exchange-specific. I had no trouble getting 212 numbers on the UWS in 2000 & 2003 from Verizon.

I apologize for being unclear, but I meant to ask about the carrier-specificity of the area code availability (not so much the location-specificity)...

With this clarified, I do find nyc10023's point interesting. Do they still stick w/ the exchanges in issuing #s? I am asking because when I saw the "exchange map" of NYC, I noticed how many of my friends had out-of-the-area numbers (e.g., a friend in BPC has a 682 prefix, which I believe is associated w/ Midtown East/Murray Hill?). Odd.

As late as 2003, it was exchange-specific (according to Verizon). When we moved in '05, it was no longer exchange-specific.

I bought a 212 number on ebay. With number portability you can use a 212 for any number. I use it on my mobile. I paid about $25 a year ago. They are not scams. Numbers belong to the customers now.

Each carrier is assigned a block of numbers (prefixes) within the area code. Time Warner has very few 212 numbers assigned. This explains why 212 may be available from Verizon but not from Time Warner. So, matt's not really wrong in this case.

FYI: http://www.area-codes.com/zip-code/zip-code-10010.asp

hey, lets give matt the benefit of the doubt...he's wrong. again.

duvravcic, it was exchange-specific. i was a verizon customer, not TWC or RCN, at the time.

I got a landline from Verizon about 4 months ago and without asking, we got a 212 number. I was surprised.

When I get a new number I always tell them that I want to select a number & not just be assigned one & they give me some from which to choose. I just get snotty & tell them that "I'm paying big bucks each month & the least they can do ..... blah blah blah". It's always worked for me.

must be location specific. my new verizon dsl line on the uws came with a 212 number just 2 months ago.

i think it must also have to do with turnover. if there are a fair number of vacancies in rentals and businesses/offices i would assume that would mean some numbers are freeing up.