Area codes 212, 646, and 332 lost. Marble Hill's trunk is wired into the Bronx line, and it would have been too expensive for New York Telephone to rewire it. A business with a 212 area code is often perceived as having stability and roots in Manhattan, particularly if a number has been in service for many decades. One example is PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (today 212-736-5000), the number for the Hotel Pennsylvania in Midtown. The hotel claims that it is the oldest continuously used number in New York City. This claim is in dispute, but PEnnsylvania 6-5000 did appear in a 1940 Glenn Miller Orchestra song title.
Glenn Miller Orchestra top items in his library." In just four years, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra accumulated 17 number-one singles and 59 Top Ten hits. His number-one hits stayed at the top of either "Your Hit Parade" or "Billboard" charts for 73 weeks. In a period of only 203 weeks of recording, Miller and His Orchestra's songs spent 442 weeks, the equivalent of eight and half years, in the Top Ten, 189 of which are from multiple consecutive streaks, the largest being two totalling above 70 weeks. Miller also has the distinction of having three posthumous "Billboard" number-one albums: A self-titled compilation