Community leaders are getting very tired of waiting for the city to choose a developer for the Kingsbridge Armory.

So are we.

Almost 18 months ago, we celebrated the announcement of the release of the request for proposals by stopping our “Armory Clock,” the countdown of days that passed since Governor George Pataki visited the armory in 2005 and announced he would help figure out where to relocate the National Guard units that still occupied the buildings behind the landmark facility, which appeared to be the main stumbling block at the time.

The RFP appeared to put the project on a clear path to realization – three developers put in bids and two are still in the running, but local politics have reportedly become a stumbling block.

Community leaders who have worked on the project think that the borough president may be holding up the project because the city wants the Related Companies to take on the job and he wants Peter Fine’s Atlantic Development Group.

If the borough president and other Bronx politicians are not the ones gumming up the works, where are their press releases calling on the city to pick a developer quick?

If our borough leaders prefer Atlantic over Related and have a good reason for it, they should stop keeping it a secret and share it with the rest of us.

Otherwise they should get out of the way and let the city decide.

Meanwhile, we’re digging out that old Armory Clock graphic. Tick, tock …