Are you running a hedge fund out of Bumblefuck, USA? Do you feel like having a New York area code could help you take this thing to the next level but lack the funds necessary for a move? Dennis Mkyktyn may be able to help. In 2003 the former hedge fund manager had the foresight to buy a bunch of 212 numbers- 100 to be exact-, knowing that one day people like yourselves would be doing unspeakable things to get their hands on one.
“It’s prestigious,” said Mr. Mykytyn, who runs a record label, Modern Records, in an office at Lafayette and East Fourth Streets. “When 212 is on your phone, everyone knows where that it is, and it means you’ve been around for a while..It’s old-school New York. The number represents a business that’s been around for a long time,” he said. Mr. Mykytyn is able to use the 212 cachet wherever he likes; he said he receives calls to his 212 number in Los Angeles because the phone service is digital. “I had an analyst working for me in Minnesota who had a 212 number,” he said. “If anyone called, they thought he was in New York.”
So he’s clearly playing coy right now but as you and we all know, everyone’s gotta price. Name yours and in the unlikely event he doesn’t cave, we’ll hook you up with a guy hoarding an arguably more prestigious** area code- the 203. He’s sitting on millions of them, literally, and while you might have to videotape yourself admitting to your co-workers you think professional wrestling is real to get ‘em, it’ll be worth it.
Want A 212 Number? This Man Has 100 Of Them [NYT via FINalternatives]
**If you exclude 50% of the towns it covers.
Aggressive tag Bess. Based on inside information? At least the readership has the first 3 numbers in the mystery that is your 10 digits.
-Guy torn about posting a shot at Bess
I would do it area code or not.
-Ping Master Flex
Fags.
-Jimmy "732" Cayne
Imposter.
-Jimmy "420" Cayne
Kill yourself. This is about DB readers blowing him for ‘code and Bess being the middlewoman/hook-up.
214>212>404
-ludacris
good part of goldman sachs using 917 since 9/11, not that it means anything
I've certainly sucked a few dicks for less than a prestigious area code.
A good way to trip up potential terrorists.
-NYT Friedman Quant
Yeah, these are worth $75 each or so, wholesale. Nice investment.
http://212areacode.com/shop/business-75/
It's funny because you truly have no idea how wrong you are with that statement. On all counts.
All those numbers, and Mr. Mykytyn couldn't find himself a full-fledged vowel or two.
Voweless names are the NKI
Thanks guest and Lewis for your insightful reading comprehension and sarcasm detection. Just goes to show that, even if done with a grain of salt, there can be no jokes at Bess' expense on DB.
Step 1: Get your fund a 212 area code.
Step 2: Get an endorsement from George Soros ( Should read something like: “Alone, the [Insert Fund Name] are incredible, together they are unstoppable”)
Step 3: Profit
They've also been pimping their 212-902-xxxx numbers all over Jersey City and Utah
Tell us more.
Or a decent shirt. What God-forsaken suburban mall shat that out?
He's not wearing pants and possibly wearing panty hose. Just a hunch.
Having a 212 in Utah is the NKI
I'm fine with them.
-Biff Basness
203>212
He's the hippest guy on New York City's hottest party line!
This post just blew my mind. I have an idea. You just wait.
- James Gorman.
Or you can get a google voice number under 212, no? And for free.
Anyone else notice the big plant about to eat this guy? FEED ME VOWELS
Am I the only one that appreciates Bess' reference to South Park? This comment thread should've been about underpants. So many underpants jokes. Oh well.
Good luck with that, even when it was Grand Central they didn't have any 212 numbers
785>203
Considering it's a regular joke in the comments, I'm sure everyone, including VonS who made a joke about it, appreciated the reference. Thanks for playing though.
We da besss!
We thought this whole time New York was 505.
- Vikram Pandit
Sorry, who is this?
-JD
I have 212 numbers for lease e-mail me: jmorales@inteleroute.com