Watch: NYC's Fiery City Council Speaker Delivers Final 'State Of The City' Address

FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN — New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito delivered her final "State of the City" address Thursday afternoon in the gorgeous old Kings Theatre auditorium on Flatbush Avenue, proving once again that she can speak circles around the mayor (who gave his own "State of the City" address a couple days prior in Harlem). From start to finish, her righteous inter-eyebrow crease was, for lack of a better word, on fleek.

Watch the speech below. It began around noon Thursday and lasted more than an hour-and-a-half.

Mark-Viverito's address coincided with the mass "Day Without Immigrants" strike playing out across the city Thursday, in protest of President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies and recent federal round-ups of New Yorkers without papers.

The head of the City Council seized this opportunity to speak her piece on the importance of immigrants to NYC.

"When we see thousands of New Yorkers at risk of deportation... we say emphatically, 'No más [No more].' Not in this city," she said.

Further into the speech, Mark-Viverito issued an anti-Trump rally cry: "When it seems as though we are being plunged into the dark ages, marchamos y protestamos [we march and protest]."

Mark-Viverito, an ultra-liberal Democrat not known for skirting controversy or mincing words, also addressed federal threats to women's rights; NYC's enduring homelessness crisis and "the war against hunger in all five boroughs"; and segregation and outdated diversity education in NYC schools. She proposed a list of concrete reforms, too, for the city's criminal justice system.

But the focus of her final "State of the City" address, and the issue she kept returning to, was immigration.

"We will not abandon our immigrant communities," she said. "They are part of our New York families. ... That's who we are: a city who supports each other."