NYC Is Getting A New Area Code: See Who Will Get The New Number

NEW YORK CITY — New York City will be soon be a new area code, according to officials.

Recently, the New York State Public Service Commission approved an all-services area code overlay for the city.

The new all-services overlay code will cover parts of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx and the Marble Hill neighborhood of Manhattan.

For now, we are months away from the new three-digit area code being chosen, but officials said all new numbers will be assigned the new area code once all the numbers using the 347, 718, 917 and 929 areas codes are taken.

The NYC currently has seven area codes. The most recent addition came in 2011, when 929 was implemented.

"There is a clear need for more telephone numbers as a result of economic growth and activity in the New York City metro areas, therefore, an additional area code is required," New York State Public Service Commission Chair Rory M. Christian said in a statement Thursday. "The new area code overlay will be able to address the expansion of telecommunication services which serves this region and to support future demand."