A room or an apartment for rent on Long Island draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 516 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 516 numbers
Get a 516 phone number for Nassau County.
Ask for 516 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Nassau County on Long Island, from Great Neck to Long Beach. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 516 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 516 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Room for rent
(516) 555-0138
Forwarding
Boat for sale
(516) 555-0174
Texts only
Catering quote
(516) 555-0106
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People ask for 516 when the search is in Nassau County.
A used car or a boat for sale in Freeport brings texts from buyers all week.
Post a 516 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.
A party or a catering job in Garden City ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 516 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 516 number is from.
Area code 516 covers all of Nassau County, on the western part of Long Island.
The New York Public Service Commission lists the cities of Long Beach and Glen Cove and the towns of Hempstead, North Hempstead and Oyster Bay. The numbering administrator adds Freeport and Levittown. Suffolk County, to the east, uses 631.
Nassau County, Long Island, NY
Area code 516 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
914
Split from
1951
516
This code
1999
631
Split off
2023
363
Shares the area
- Hempstead
- Long Beach
- Glen Cove
- Freeport
- Levittown
- Garden City
- Mineola
- Great Neck
- Valley Stream
- Oyster Bay
- Massapequa Park
- Farmingdale
These are the facts about area code 516.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Nassau County, Long Island, New York
- In service since
- 1951
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 363 (2023)
- Split from
- 914 (1947)
- Codes split from it
- 631 (1999)
516 has been in service since 1951, and it once served all of Long Island. On November 1, 1999 Suffolk County was split off as 631, and Nassau County kept 516.
The Public Service Commission approved a second code, 363, on January 20, 2022, and it entered service on January 20, 2023 over the same area. Ten-digit local dialing became mandatory on October 24, 2021.
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People ask these questions about getting a 516 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 516 as the area code and give it a name, such as Room for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in New York: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A mover, a tutor or a landscaper in Mineola can put a 516 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 516 area takes in Hempstead, Long Beach, Glen Cove, Freeport, Great Neck and Oyster Bay. 363 numbers cover the same area.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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More area codes
Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
- North American Numbering Plan Administrator, area code database
- NANPA planning letter PL-581, February 17, 2022
- NANPA planning letter PL-184, July 22, 1999
- New York State Public Service Commission, order directing an overlay of the 516 area code, January 20, 2022
- New York State Department of Public Service, press release on the 363 area code, January 13, 2023
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