London-based street artist Lakwena Maciver is the latest to paint a mural on the giant Bowery Graffiti Wall on the corner of Houston and Bowery. Social Media giant Instagram partnered with the wall's owner Goldman Properties as part of a campaign to "turn city walls around the world into colorful murals, inspiring #KindComments."

Lakwena creates kaleidoscopic murals and large-scale art installations that combine language and color. “It’s really nice to be promoting and encouraging positive words that will uplift people,” she says. We’re partnering with artists from the Instagram community, like Lakwena, to turn city walls around the world into colorful murals, inspiring #KindComments. Visit a wall, take a photo or video and share #KindComments to make someone’s day.

Titled "Lift you Higher", the new mural is in the colorful kaleidoscopic, text-based street art style that Lakwena is known for.

Sitting on an unassuming lot in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood, the Wyckoff House and Museum doesn't look like much, but it has the distinction of being New York City's oldest surviving structure, with the original portion of the home dating back to 1652. In this video from New Netherland Now, learn the history if New York City's oldest house.

New York City can trace back its roots to the free and liberal city of Amsterdam in the 17th century. The Wyckoff House is the only house in New York City that is from that period, when the Republic of the Netherlands ruled part of North America. The house is one of the most tangible reminders of a period of American history that has largely been forgotten. New Amsterdam (1625-1664) was a colony in which people from all over the world used trade to make something better of themselves.

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