What is so special about the 212 area code?

Back when the telephone system used dial pulses instead of DTMF tones, 212 was the code that required the smallest number of dial pulses (2+1+2=5 pulses). The largest cities got the codes with the fewest pulses. For example:

213 Los Angeles

214 Dallas

215 Philadelphia

216 Cleveland

312 Chicago

313 Detroit

314 St Louis

412 Pittsburgh

414 Milwaukee

512 Austin

513 Cincinnati

612 Minneapolis

Note that these codes all had "1" as the middle digit - to dial "0" requires 10 dial pulses.

I live in NYC

Im guessing your talking about NYC right?

A couple of years back people hated it because it was something new to remember.

Now they have 929, or 979, i forgot the new one.

Plus certain areas, for example, poor, dirty areas of NY have different area codes. People dont want to be associated with those codes

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