PBNYC is organized by City Council district. Each participating district runs its own assemblies, delegate committees, ballot and vote under a shared citywide rulebook and timeline (Public Agenda noted in 2016 that all 24 NYC districts followed one rulebook and one steering committee, unlike most PB sites), and projects must be in the district (out-of-district ideas were ruled ineligible in the pilot). Participation grew from 4 districts in Cycle 1 (2011-12) to 8 in Cycle 2, 10 in Cycle 3 (9 full processes plus District 5 at the vote only), 24 in Cycle 4, 28 in Cycle 5, 31 in Cycle 6, 27 in Cycle 7 and 32 in Cycle 8, across all five boroughs; after the pandemic pause the Council reported 29 districts in 2023, 25 in 2025 and 22 in the 2025-26 cycle, none of them on Staten Island, and the current idea map lists 24 member districts. There is no citywide pot or ballot: Central Staff and the Citywide Committee coordinate, train, translate, count ballots and hold citywide and borough-wide events. Boundaries are inherited: District 8 spans Manhattan and the Bronx, was redistricted between Cycles 2 and 3, which the evaluators noted hurt participation in new areas, and ran separate Manhattan and Bronx ballots in Cycle 7; only the Rockaway portions of Districts 32 (Cycle 1) and 31 (Cycle 3) took part, and District 32 ran two separate votes in Cycle 3. Within a district, delegates could not form sub-district geographic committees in Cycles 2 and 3; from Cycle 6 they may where a body of water divides the district. Equity weighting is equal at the floor ($1 million per district) but not in practice: members top up unevenly, and Brooklyn members must add Borough President capital funds. Equity is pursued inside each district through outreach to underrepresented groups and needs-based project ranking, not by weighting pots between districts.