929 Area Code Counties: Kings, Queens, Bronx, Richmond and New York

The Five Counties of the 929 Area Code

The 929 area code covers parts of five counties: Kings County, Queens County, Bronx County, Richmond County and a small part of New York County. That is because each New York City borough is also a county in its own right, and 929 serves four complete boroughs: Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. The fifth county, New York County, appears on the list only because of one small neighbourhood, Marble Hill, which belongs to Manhattan but uses the outer borough phone codes.

County names matter more than most people expect. They appear on official records, court documents, property deeds and government forms, while borough names are what New Yorkers actually use in daily life. If you are filling in a form for a 929 address, the county field is where Kings, Queens, Bronx or Richmond usually belongs. This page maps each 929 borough to its county, confirms that 929 is present in each one, and explains the one case, Marble Hill, where the tidy pattern breaks.

929 Counties Table: Borough by Borough

The table below is the complete county picture for the 929 overlay. Every borough listed shares the same four area codes: 718 from 1984, 347 from 1999, 929 from 16 April 2011 and 465 from 18 June 2026.

Read the table with one rule in mind: the combined population of the four boroughs plus Marble Hill is about 6.9 million people, and all of them live inside the same overlay. There are about 291 ZIP codes across this territory. No county in the table has an exclusive set of 929 prefixes, because prefixes are assigned within the shared numbering plan area, not county by county.

• Kings County is Brooklyn: same borders, two names, one government for most purposes
• Queens County is Queens, the largest borough by land area
• Bronx County is the Bronx, and its name needs no translation
• Richmond County is Staten Island, the name used in courts and records
• New York County is Manhattan, and only its Marble Hill neighbourhood falls in 929

Why Marble Hill Sits in New York County but Uses 929

Marble Hill is the exception that explains the whole system. Legally and politically, Marble Hill is part of the borough of Manhattan, which means it is part of New York County. Geographically, however, it sits on the mainland side of the Harlem River, attached to the Bronx, after an old shipping channel project cut it off from the rest of Manhattan island. When telephone exchanges were built, Marble Hill was wired into the Bronx network, and that wiring decision has lasted ever since.

The result is a neighbourhood with a Manhattan identity and outer borough phone numbers. Marble Hill residents use 718, 347, 929 and 465, not the Manhattan codes 212, 646 and 332. So when directories list New York County among the 929 counties, they are technically correct, but only for this one small neighbourhood. The rest of New York County, meaning Manhattan proper south of Marble Hill, is not covered by 929 at all.

Which County Should You Write for a 929 Address?

Use the county that matches the borough of the street address: Kings for Brooklyn, Queens for Queens, Bronx for the Bronx and Richmond for Staten Island. For a Marble Hill address, the county is New York County even though the phone code is 929. ZIP code is often the fastest check, since the ZIP ranges differ by borough: 112xx for Brooklyn, 111xx to 116xx for Queens, 104xx for the Bronx and 103xx for Staten Island.

One Overlay, Five Counties: Dialing Rules

County lines do not change how you dial. The whole territory is on Eastern Time, and 10-digit dialing is mandatory everywhere in it, because 718, 347, 929 and 465 share the same geography. A call from Kings County to Richmond County is dialed exactly like a call across the street: area code plus seven digits, with a 1 in front for long distance dialing from a landline where required by your carrier.

The county view is most useful for records, forms and research. The borough view is most useful for daily life. The phone network itself cares about neither: it cares about the numbering plan area, and in this part of New York City that area is one shared overlay of four codes covering about 6.9 million people.