Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Playwright Neil Simon and his wife Elaine have picked up another apartment at the Ritz Tower on Park Avenue. The couple paid $1.225 million for the two-bedroom on the building's 14th floor. It's the fourth apartment that Simon has purchased in the building, where he's been a resident since the 1970s. [NYO]
• Risa Meyer, the daughter of late socialite Kitty Meyer, has dropped the price of her 3,000-square-foot condo at Trump Parc East. The three-bedroom apartment, which she put on the market for $14.8 million in March, is now listed for $11.6 million. [Cityfile, Stribling]
• Sam Siegal, an analyst at Bruce Kovner's Caxton Associates hedge fund, and his wife Randi, have paid $4.5 million for a 12th floor apartment at 150 East 86th Street. [Cityfile]
• Chelsea Piers co-founder Roland Betts has put his 780-acre property near Norfolk, Conn. up for sale. Betts, who once hoped to build a golf club on the site, is selling the land (and nine-bedroom home) for $24 million. [NYP, PK]

Happy Birthday: Holiday Weekend Special | A roundup of people who will be celebrating their birthdays on Friday, Saturday and Sunday is below.More

Happy Birthday | The world's most famous half-Puerto Rican/half-Jewish man with a moustache, Geraldo Rivera, will turn 65 tomorrow. Also celebrating on the fourth of July: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who will be 78 and playwright Neil Simon, who is turning 81. Other people celebrating birthdays over the long weekend: RZA, 50 Cent, Chuck Close, Matthew Barney, Chuck Klosterman, Edie Falco, and former Mets manager Willie Randolph.