Summary
Area code 917 serves all five boroughs of New York City, NY, covering Kings, Queens, New York, Bronx, and Richmond counties.
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It is an overlay for area code 212 and area code 718 and serves the combined area.
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It is also assigned to landlines predominantly in Manhattan, to relieve the shortage of numbers there.
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It is intended to serve cellular, pager, and voicemail applications in the city, a restriction that was subsequently ruled impermissible by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) while grandfathering that use in New York City.
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