We tracked the location of new child seats in the opening year of Mr. de Blasio's pre-k effort. This brief first details varying levels of growth in the count of seats situated in public schools, looking across the city's boroughs and communities, which differ widely in their economic vitality and organized infrastructure. We then examine the evolving distribution of seats situated in community organizations, asking whether they help to equalize children's access to preschool. The city's departments of education and health have published neighborhood-level data on the location of pre-k seats for 2013 and 2014, the inventories on which our analysis is based (author abstract)