On a quiet Briggs Avenue block, the loudest location is also one of the most cherished by Bedford Park residents. The clang of fire engines rushing from the home of the Engine 79 and Ladder 37 Fire Department companies is a din that, as of this year, has been gladly tolerated for the past century.

A week after the City Council overwhelmingly approved the deal that would allow the city to construct a giant water filtration plant in the Norwood section of Van Cortlandt Park, a state judge ordered the city not to begin work on the project until at least next Tuesday when a hearing will be held in the same courtroom.

The overhaul of the Bronx Meals on Wheels program for senior citizens rolled out last Friday despite a three-month delay that advocates hoped spelled its eventual demise.

A full year after the city promised to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to develop the Kingsbridge Armory, officials say they cannot predict when that will happen. In order to bid out the decade-long development project, the city needs to gain full control of the East 195th Street annex to the rear of the Armory, which still houses two National Guard units.

Who knew it was possible? State legislators are actually talking about reforming the Byzantine ways of the state Capitol.

For two hours every weekday and even more on Mondays, Gary Axelbank finds a gazillion ways to talk about what he loves best: all things Bronx.

School District 10’s new school council got a wobbly start when its first fall meeting was marred by low attendance, bad acoustics, and a general sense of disorder. Audience members were clearly frustrated with the revamped board, now called the Community Education Council — which is struggling to define itself and make its voice heard in the city school system.

Surrounded by stacks of brochures, parent Macrina Lord recently began the daunting process of researching high schools for her eighth grade daughter. With the opening of new small schools in the Bronx, and an application that requires more selections than ever, that process has only made her more overwhelmed.

It’s a gray Tuesday morning on Lehman College’s leafy campus, but within BronxTalk’s subterranean studio, the lights, and the conversation, are hot. Host Gary Axelbank races between segments on tuberculosis, Throgs Neck, the Mets, and preparing your child for school. Three guest callers have canceled, the guests for tomorrow are calling, and Axelbank has to rush through his closing so the credits can roll.