Boro pols lament plight of poor at City Hall meet

By Jyoti Thottam

A few hours after City Council Speaker Peter Vallone (D-Astoria) had finished his State of the City address Tuesday, most of the dignitaries, television cameras and blanched asparagus set out for the luncheon were gone.

In their place, under the tricolor bunting hanging from the balcony of the City Council chambers, were more than 100 people who came to discuss the state of the other half of the city