Today’s Links: Customer Service Goes Out The Window At Crown Heights Barbershop, Brooklyn Bridge Park Eyes Its Last Undeveloped Parcel & More

A Brooklyn-to-Manhattan commuter has indulged an interesting hobby and art project on her daily subway rides: photographing straphangers’ hands. But while some make art on their way to work, other commuters are at their wits end—especially bikers on the Brooklyn Bridge, who are looking for some kind of alternative.

Down below the summer’s pedestrian and tourist hellscape on top of the bridge, the last undeveloped part of Brooklyn Bridge Park is facing a big question: what to build? An ice skating rink and a petting zoo have both been offered up as suggestions…

A new playground designed by students will come to Central Brooklyn, at the Winthrop Campus in East Flatbush, with a running track and ball fields, as part of Governor Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn campaign. Hopefully, the playground will teach kids to play well with others…

Because disagreements as adults can have dangerous outcomes: a customer at a Crown Heights barbershop was thrown through a plate-glass window by his barber after complaining about his haircut and threatening to withhold payment.

In neighboring Bed-Stuy, making payments at small businesses can be a local—and less violent—undertaking, as two Brooklyn entrepreneurs launch the payment app StuyPend in neighborhood shops, offering a flat rate to businesses over potentially pricey credit-card fees.

In political news, the Reverend Khader El-Yateem, who was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary for what is now Councilmember Justin Brannan’s seat, has announced he’ll be leaving Bay Ridge to run an outreach program in Florida.

But big names will be arriving in Bay Ridge soon enough: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elizabeth Moss and Domhnall Gleason will be filming a movie, “The Kitchen,” at local favorite Anopoli Ice Cream Parlor, at 3rd and Bay Ridge Avenues.

Finally, in a tragedy that keeps unfolding, the Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, who was struck in the Park Slope car crash that killed her daughter and a young boy earlier this year, has now lost her unborn child. Our thoughts are with the family during this time of mourning.