New York State and surrounding areas Area codes Jan 2024

Area code 914 is the telephone

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in the

North American Numbering Plan The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is an integrated 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, World Numbering Zone ...

(NANP) for

Westchester County, New York Westchester County is a County (United States), county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, bordering the Long Island Sound and the Byram River to its east and the Hudson River on its west. The c ...

. 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, Orange, Putnam, Rockland,

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, 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,

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(Nassau and Suffolk counties) received area code 516 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 codes 845 and 329 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of New York. The numbering plan area comprises the mid- and lower Hudson Valley, specifically Orange, Putnam, Rockland, and Ulster c ...

. 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 an integrated telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Numbering Zone 1 and has the ...

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

seven-digit dialing Seven-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure customary in some territories of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for dialing telephone numbers in the same numbering plan area (NPA). NANP telephone numbers consist of ten digits, of wh ...

. This area code was therefore scheduled to transition to

ten-digit dialing Ten-digit dialing is a telephone dialing procedure in the countries and territories of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). It is the practice of including the area code of a telephone number when Dialling (telephony), dialing to initiate a t ...

by October 24, 2021.

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External links

Interactive Map of Area Code 914
{{DEFAULTSORT:Area Code 914 Westchester County, New York 914 914 Telecommunications-related introductions in 1947

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