Area code 914 is the telephone area code in the

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(NANP) for

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. Area code 914 was one of the first area codes announced when the North American Numbering Plan was created in October 1947, when it was assigned to a numbering plan area (NPA) comprising

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, Dutchess, Nassau,

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, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan,

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, and Westchester counties, an area largely coextensive with the New York state portion of the

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, excluding

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, which received

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. In 1951, Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk counties) received

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in a split of 914. This configuration remained for 49 years. By the end of the 1990s, the increasing demand for

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and

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dial-up connections caused concerns for exhaustion of the numbering pool. In mitigation, numbering plan area 914 was reduced to Westchester County on June 5, 2000. The remainder was assigned the new area code 845. Area code 914 was retained by all cellphones in use in the plan area before the split. Prior to October 2021, area code 914 had telephone numbers assigned for the

central office code The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international calling ...

988. In 2020, ''988'' was designated nationwide as a dialing code for the

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, which created a conflict for exchanges that permit

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. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to

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by October 24, 2021.

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External links

Interactive Map of Area Code 914
{{DEFAULTSORT:Area Code 914 Westchester County, New York

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Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947

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