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Originally Posted by Docere
NYC does not have "only" 15 reps. It has a mayor, 51 councillors as well as 5 elected borough presidents. In addition there are 59 community boards with hundreds of members. Councillors in Toronto actually do a lot of the work done by community boards.
ETA: Also an elected comptroller and public advocate. Then each NYC borough is a county.
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The whole relationship between counties and cities always confused me, whether it's in the US or in Canada.
There appears to be no "one size fits all". There are situations where a city is the equivalent of a county, situations where a city is within a county, and even situations where counties are smaller than cities such as when each NYC borough is a county.