Hexagrams are a trendy thing these days. Folks like 538 and NPR do a lot of them, but I haven't seen many local ones for New York State. Then I discovered this "R" library that can convert geospatial polygons into regular or hexagonal grids known as J Bailey's geogrid. It turns out it's a pretty good library, and has decent output, but requires a bit of minor editing to improve the computer output to make more sense of county locations.