ALBANY — Manhattanites seeking a new or additional phone will soon have to deal with a new area code — 332 — which will join the iconic 212 and more recent area codes 646 and 917 added 20 years ago.
Between 929, 718, 646, and half a dozen more triple-digit arrangements, New York City is a thicket of area codes. They abut, interlock, and overlap to the general confusion of callers and caller ID ...