What emerged would change design history. The campaign began with three simple words: I Love New York. William S. Doyle, the state’s deputy commissioner of commerce, asked native New Yorker ...

The Hudson River winds through Upstate New York against a backdrop of orchards and farms that feed a local culture of distillers, brewers, chefs and producers.

The Gatsby Suite at The Plaza hotel, New York City. Doubles from $1,800 (£1,425). Published in the USA guide, available with the Jan/Feb 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK).

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Many of its neighbors, as well as New York's mayor for much of the 1990s, Rudolph Giuliani, couldn't wait to tear ...