An appreciation: Neil Simon was a funnyman who pleased himself by going deeper

... anymore, I write plays," Simon once said to me, not long after he had won his Pulitzer Prize, in 1991, for "Lost in Yonkers," the drama of a troubled family presided over by a domineering matriarch. This megasuccessful playwright - a genius of the ...

Cynthia Nixon: Democrats need to let black women lead party

... - wasn't included in weeks of closed-door talks that led to last Sunday's passage of the budget. Stewart-Cousins, of Yonkers, leads the Senate's mainstream Democrats. She wasn't included in the so-called "four men in a room" negotiations in which ...