>I guess this dates me. It was a New York City telephone exchange -- the >expanded form of "BU-8". The combination of two letters and a number, >before the 4-digit main number, was later changed to three numbers as it is >today. The two-letter symbol was usually referred to in conversation by the >full name (often based on a New York City neighborhood). Chelsea was CH, >Gramercy was GR, etc., and BU was Butterfield, though just why Butterfield >was picked I don't know. > >Hugh C. MacDougall >Secretary/Treasurer >James Fenimore Cooper Society >8 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326-1016 ><[log in to unmask]> ><http://library.cmsu.edu/cooper/cooper.htm> > >---------- >> From: [log in to unmask] >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: upstate ny films >> Date: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 10:43 PM >> >> Here's a New York trivia question (inspired by the movie list) for the >list; >> All of us know the movie >Butterfield 8<. What is the significance of >> "Butterfield 8"? Where does that term come from? >> >> Jim Maguire >> [log in to unmask] Butterfield 8 followed Atwater 9, if memory serves. Others I recall were Endicott (West side), Longacre (mid-town) Trafalger (Wall Street area), Yukon (Eat side). Anyone remember others?