I have to go with Option #1 again.
Despite the modification/simplification of option/design #2, I can't see it pleating well. Pleating to the sett might be doable, but to the stripe doesn't look workable. So box pleats, military box pleats, or just pleating to the stripe are out.
As for option #3 - I see the same problems pleating it. Also,
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.... I don't really see NY as a 'red' tartan state.
New York is only that red maybe one, two weeks out of the year, tops. It's beautiful and breathtaking, but we're green and blue for so much more of the year.

And 'though I'm going with #1, I still prefer the "Heart of NY 1a":


And what Beerbecue did with the St. Andrew Society of NY tartan looks good ...
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... and it doesn't look like any of the St. Andrews tartans in the Scottish Register of Tartans or the Scottish Tartans Authority.