A room for rent brings calls from strangers.
Put a 718 number on the listing. The calls ring your phone, and the number stops existing once the room is taken.
Local 718 numbers
Get a 718 phone number for Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx or Staten Island.
Ask for 718 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as New York City outside Manhattan. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it when the listing comes down.
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This is how you get a 718 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 718 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
(718) 555-0185
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Car for sale
(718) 555-0112
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Roofer quote
(718) 555-0147
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People ask for 718 because that is where they live and sell.
A stoop sale or a used car needs a contact number.
Buyers get a local number that works like any other. You get to end it when the thing is sold.
Repair quotes come with follow-up calls.
Give the plumber, the roofer and the mover one number each. If one of them keeps calling, burn that one.
This is where a 718 number is from.
Area code 718 is New York City outside Manhattan: Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
It also takes in Marble Hill, a neighborhood that belongs to Manhattan on paper and to this group of codes on the phone network.
Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, NY
Area code 718 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
212
Split from
1984
718
This code
1992
917
Shares the area
1999
347
Shares the area
2011
929
Shares the area
2026
465
Shares the area
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- The Bronx
- Staten Island
- Marble Hill
These are the facts about area code 718.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 13, 2026.
- Place
- Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, New York
- In service since
- 1984
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 917 (1992), 347 (1999), 929 (2011) and 465 (2026)
- Split from
- 212 (1947)
718 was split from 212 and entered service on September 1, 1984. Since then four more codes have been laid over the same area: 917 in 1992, 347 in 1999, 929 in 2011 and 465, which entered service on June 18, 2026.
With five codes sharing the boroughs, a local call is dialed as 1 plus all ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 718 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 718 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 roofer in Queens or a landlord in Brooklyn can put a 718 number on the flyer and the listing, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes, and not only Brooklyn. 718 also serves Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. 917, 347, 929 and 465 cover the same four boroughs.
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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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. Read October 13, 2026.
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