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 Message 2422 
 John Levine to All 
 Re: Area code splits 
 19 Nov 12 04:30:22 
 
From: johnl@iecc.com

XPost: nyc.transit

>I don't see why New York boroughs should be denied the pleasure of
>experiencing something comparable to the 312/773 split, which follows
>rate center boundaries and jog all over the place.

Well, New York has the geographic peculiarities of Marble Hill, which
is legally part of Manhattan while physically connected to the Bronx,
and Rikers' Island which is legally part of the Bronx, while only
accessible from Queens, but in general the borough boundaries are
unambiguous, mostly marked by large navigable waterways, so that's
where the splits happen.  And perhaps the NY PSC is more on the ball
than IL.

Irrelevant fact: for many years the NY PSC was run by Fred Kahn, who
later was the force behind airline regulation, and after that retired
to a sinecure at Cornell.  In Ithaca we have a community supported
movie theater, with many bits endowed by local movie lovers with
plaques saying who paid for what.  So I have had the opportunity to
take a whiz at the Alfred Kahn urinal.

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