PEnnsylvania 6-5000 PEnnsylvania 6-5000 PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common in the largest US cities from approximately 1930 into the 1960s. The named "Pennsylvania" exchange served the area around Penn Station in New York. The two letters, "PE", stand for the numbers 7 and 3, making the phone number 736-5000, not including the later area code 212 for Manhattan. The number is best known from the 1940 hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", a swing jazz and pop standard recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Its owner, the
Harry S. Miller Eccentric Character and Comedy Sketch", a two-man play. Miller married his wife Levina and moved to Tyrone, Pennsylvania, where they gave birth to their daughter, Gladys Lucille, in 1905. Most of his music was published by Edward Taylor Paull (and the E.T. Paull Co.), a New England publisher at the time, who also composed "He's Goin' to Hab a Hot Time Bye an' Bye" for Miller. The date of Miller's death is unknown, but he was apparently still alive in 1908. Many of his songs have been lost, along with their date of publication, including: Harry S. Miller Harry S.