Public libraries All branches of the New York Public Library — which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island — will be closed Friday, July 4 through Sunday, July 6.

The Naked Gun star Liam Neeson has reflected on Qui-Gon Jinn's death in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, admitting that the way his Jedi Master went out at the hands of Darth Maul was "a bit namby-pamby ...