After postponing a vote on Wednesday, the City Council once again postponed the vote Friday on a multi-million dollar plan to redevelop Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into a shopping mall.

The city and developer Related Companies want a $310 million project to turn the 180,000-square-feet location into stores and community space.

Bronx residents and their council members are demanding that store workers agree to pay a so-called "living wage" of at least $10 an hour.

"If we can't make jobs good, businesses aren't really willing to pay what they should to provide sustainable wages and benefits, then those jobs aren't worth having," said community member Jeff Eichler. "I'm willing to say no."

"I think the Council should stand up for us, because we're their constituents," said Bronx resident Sandie Campbell. "So we're asking them, don't let them come and dump on us. You're going to be recycling poverty and that would be a shame."

City Council members in favor of the living wage agreement say if they do not reach a deal, they plan to vote no, killing the proposal.

Other Council members say the deal is still undergoing negotiation.

"I am working very closely with my colleagues from the Bronx," said Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "City Council members are always strong when they are negotiating economic development and land use items in their districts."

Leaders are in negotiations to create a city wage fund, which would pay the workers the extra money. Yet city lawyers are looking into whether that would be legal.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that he is strongly opposed to setting wages at a private development, and said the delay could mean the end of the project all together.

"The developer says he is not going to dictate that and it is certainly not the city's business to tell the developer what he has to pay," said Bloomberg.

"This seems for the mayor to be a very difficult question to answer, or actually he has answered it with a resounding, 'No, people should not get a living wage.' We feel that they should," said Ivan Braun of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance.

Lawmakers must vote on the proposal by Monday if they want to vote against it. It could go through without a vote because the City Planning Commission already approved of the redevelopment.