The 11 Alive team from 1982 would like to wish you a happy 2018! Check out these familiar news faces! | WPIX Archives

THE BLIZZARD OF 1983! Here is rare footage from the WPIX Archives of the Blizzard of 1983, which buried the tri-state area on Feb. 11-12, 1983. This footage is so cool — check out the old Automat at 42nd Street and Third Avenue, the Woolworths across the street, the old cabs and the tough New Yorkers trying not to fall. What are your memories of the Blizzard of 1983? | WPIX Archives

Do you remember this? In 1983, the New York Telephone Company announced that New York City, which had been with a 212 area code since the codes were first introduced in 1947, would be divided into two area codes by mid-1984. Manhattan and the Bronx would retain the 212 code while Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island would be given a new code: 718. The company said the move was necessary because it was running out of numbers, and that with the two codes it could double the number of exchanges. Cal