Main city: Bethlehem
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Teleport Communications Group

Bethlehem, a town in Albany County, New York, USA. The population was 33,656 at the 2010 census. The town is south of Albany. Bethlehem includes the following hamlets: Delmar, Elsmere, Slingerlands, Glenmont, Selkirk, South and North Bethlehem. U.S. Route 9W passes through the town. The town is named after the biblical Bethlehem. ^source

Area code 518 is a telephone area code in eastern upstate New York, established as one of the original area codes in 1947. It covers 24 counties and 1,200 ZIP codes. It has 493 landline and 100 wireless exchanges serviced by 47 carriers. It is the largest area code in size in New York, extending from the eastern Mohawk Valley to the Vermont border, and from the Canadian border to south of Albany. The bulk of the area code's population is located in the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady and Troy). Other major cities in the area code are Glens Falls and Plattsburgh. ^source