718 Area Code: New York City, New York

The 718 area code covers four of New York City's boroughs — Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island — leaving Manhattan to the original 212 designation. The 718 footprint takes in some of the most populous and diverse residential neighborhoods of any US city, from the brownstone blocks of Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope through the Caribbean and South Asian communities of central Brooklyn and southern Queens, the Bronx's residential sections north of the Harlem River, and the suburban-feeling neighborhoods of Staten Island.

Records linked to 718 numbers in the directory often include other New York cities — Albany, Binghamton, Brentwood, and Buffalo among them. None of those are inside the 718 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across New York and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 749 distinct prefixes within 718 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

New York City's population dominates the demographic story: the city sits among the largest in the world. Home values in the city run several times the US median, household income comes in slightly above the national reading citywide, and the median age sits close to the US figure. The 718 footprint specifically covers the four outer boroughs, where housing readings and neighborhood-level income profiles vary considerably across the corridor — a sharp contrast between Manhattan's higher-density financial concentration and the residential character of the broader outer-borough geography.