Glenn Miller Band - PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (1940)

PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is claimed by its owner, the Hotel Pennsylvania, to be the oldest continuing phone number in New York City.

The telephone number is based on the old telephone exchange name system. The first two letters "PE" in PE6-5000 stand for the rotary dial numbers 7 and 3, making the number (with Manhattan's area code) +1 (212) 736-5000.

The exact age of the phone number, and the veracity of the Pennsylvania's claim, is unknown. The earliest it could have existed is around 1930, when seven-digit telephone numbers were first adopted in New York City.

Many big band names played in the Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge Ballroom, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra; the phone number became the inspiration for the Glenn Miller 1940 Top 5 Billboard hit song of the same name, written by Jerry Gray and Carl Sigman, and released as RCA Bluebird 78 B-10754-A backed with "Rug Cutter's Swing. The number was notably requested in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.


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