718 Area Code – New York, New York: Location, Time Zone & History

Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island have carried area code 718 since September 1, 1984, when the New York Public Service Commission split it away from 212 to relieve exhaustion in the growing city, leaving Manhattan and the Bronx on the old code. That arrangement did not last: on July 1, 1992 the Bronx and the Marble Hill section of Manhattan were moved over to 718 as well, since Marble Hill's phone exchanges physically wire through Bronx central offices.

Demand kept climbing, and New York City became a proving ground for overlay dialing. Area code 917 arrived in 1992 as the NANP's first-ever overlay, followed by 347 in 1999 and 929 in 2011 stacked onto the same 718 territory, with 465 added most recently in June 2026. Today 718, 347, 929, 917, and 465 all serve the same four boroughs -- Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island -- home to about 7.1 million people.

• Port of New York and New Jersey terminals and the JFK Airport cargo hub anchor logistics and shipping
• Brooklyn's Steiner Studios is one of the largest film and TV production facilities on the East Coast
• CUNY campuses and St. John's University support higher education across the boroughs
• 718 became a badge of outer-borough pride after the 1984 split, read by many as a marker of authentic, working-class New York against Manhattan's 212