Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Call From NYC to Long Island and Fisher's Island Message-ID: <11591@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 13:51:19 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 612, Message 8 of 10 schwartz@aiag.enet.dec.com writes that a call from 212 to 516 is local. But I had a message from roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu saying that the call in question was going about 20 or 30 miles beyond Cold Spring Harbor. Back in the 1970s (I don't know what has changed in the meantime), the message-unit calling area from NYC went as far east as the Amityville, Cold Spring Harbor, and Farmingdale exchanges, which are somewhere around the Nassau-Suffolk border. Fisher's Island, NY: It's served by 516-788, and is more easily reached reached from Connecticut than it is from the rest of N.Y.state. It is toll from other parts of area 516 (and of course this would make it a toll call from NYC). Calls to Fisher's Island are apparently routed thru Connecticut, according to info I read from a 1982 tape (also, Fisher's Island has a Connecticut zipcode 06390, which long ago replaced 11943; and at least one church lumps it in with a Connecticut, not a N.Y. state, diocese).