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TRANSPORTATION
City Department of Transportation Pushes Technology (Metrofocus)
Georgia Kral reports: “Beyond expanding the private sector, city government is also using technology to improve service. And one agency in particular is relying on it to modernize and adapt for the future: the Department of Transportation.”

TRANSPORTATION
Minorities Criticize Long Island’s Revised Political Map (WSJ)
Will James reports: “For decades, Long Island's minority population has grown steadily, transforming the nation's first suburbs from white, Republican bastions into an area that is nearly 30% black, Latino and Asian. On Thursday, anger over the failure of those numbers to translate into political power erupted at a public hearing here in Suffolk County on new boundaries drafted for the island's nine state Senate seats.”

SPORTS
Jeremy Lin’s Emergence Ignites Scramble for Jerseys (NYT)
Patrick McGeehan reports: “In his three bolt-from-the-blue games with the Knicks, Jeremy Lin has proved too quick for opposing defenders, too quick for professional basketball’s marketing machine, even too quick for New York’s black market in counterfeit goods.”

OPINION
Two Governors’ Sucker Punches at the Port Authority (NYT)
Michael Powell writes: “Our gubernatorial bruise brothers, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, howled denunciation of the Port Authority this week, describing it as encrusted with dysfunction. They took the narrative heard on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 — that the authority’s director, Christopher O. Ward, had found a 16-acre site lost in a swamp of political infighting and set memorial waterfalls to flowing and towers to rising — and forcibly upended it.”

REAL ESTATE
Critics Say Audit Gives Port Bad Rap (Crain’s)
Jeremy Smerd reports: “An audit this week branded the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey as dysfunctional and warned that $3.8 billion in new World Trade Center costs loom. But the picture may not be a bad as it seems.”

POLITICS
Eric Adams Makes Brooklyn BP Run Official (NY Politicker)
David Freedlander reports: “State Senator Eric Adams put an end to speculation about which office he would seek, announcing in an email to supporters this afternoon, ‘At the behest of many of you, Eric has decided to pursue his dream to run for the office of Brooklyn Borough President in 2013.’”

CRIME
Shot Officer Kevin Brennan Heads Home from Hospital (Newsday)
David Freedlander reports: “State Senator Eric Adams put an end to speculation about which office he would seek, announcing in an email to supporters this afternoon, ‘At the behest of many of you, Eric has decided to pursue his dream to run for the office of Brooklyn Borough President in 2013.’”

OPINION
City Must Not Ban Boys’ Sports in New Schools (Queens Chronicle)
Council member Elizabeth Crowley in an op-ed writes that the city Department of Education’s embargo on the creation of new boys’ sports teams is “effectively discriminating against boys in new schools and continuing to disparage girls in existing schools.”