One number works for a move across the city.
Looking in Brooklyn and Queens at once? A 917 number is local to both, and it is gone when you have signed.
Local 917 numbers
Get a 917 phone number for New York City.
Ask for 917 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out fits any borough. Calls ring your own phone, texts land in your inbox, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 917 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 917 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
Apartment hunt
(917) 555-0109
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Movers quote
(917) 555-0174
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Car for sale
(917) 555-0136
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People ask for 917 because it fits any borough.
Contractors and movers get a line you can close.
Collect the quotes on a 917 number that rings your phone. When the job is booked, burn it and the follow-up stops.
A classified ad does not need your real number.
Selling a car or a bike to strangers is easier when the number on the ad is one you plan to end.
This is where a 917 number is from.
Area code 917 covers all five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
No other New York City code does that. The city has two groups of codes. 212, 646 and 332 belong to Manhattan. 718, 347, 929 and 465 belong to the other four boroughs. 917 sits in both groups, so a 917 number can be anywhere in the city.
New York City, NY
Area code 917 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
212
Shares the area
1984
718
Shares the area
1992
917
This code
1999
646
Shares the area
1999
347
Shares the area
2011
929
Shares the area
2017
332
Shares the area
2026
465
Shares the area
- Manhattan
- Brooklyn
- Queens
- The Bronx
- Staten Island
These are the facts about area code 917.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 13, 2026.
- Place
- New York City, New York
- In service since
- 1992
- Local calls are dialed with
- 1 plus ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 212 (1947), 718 (1984), 646 (1999), 347 (1999), 929 (2011), 332 (2017) and 465 (2026)
917 entered service in 1992, and its parent code is 212. It is the oldest of the codes that were laid over the city.
More overlays followed on each side of the river: 646 and 347 in 1999, 929 in 2011, 332 in 2017 and 465 in June 2026. A local call anywhere in the city is dialed as 1 plus all ten digits.
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People ask these questions about getting a 917 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 917 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment hunt. 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 contractor or a tutor who works in every borough can put a 917 number on the flyer, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the work is done.
Yes. 917 is the one code that covers all five: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. It belongs to both groups of New York City codes, Manhattan's and the other 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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