Some of you will know right away what my blog is about.

With the city running out of phone numbers, new area codes pop up with some regularity. In fact, New York City currently has six area codes.

But I remember a time when all of New York City was in the 212 area code and the exchange was tagged by its name first, not by its number. My Brooklyn phone number started with TW1, or Twining 1. I remember a friend whose phone number started CL6 – Cloverdale 6.

Do you remember your first phone number –and did its exchange bear a name or number?