Which ones would those be?
I guess you can count the NYPost as being somewhat right wing but beyond that which ones?
The Daily News - I wouldn't exactly call it right wing though you could say it isn't nearly as left wing as the times.
After that in the area you got Newsday and The Star Ledger of New Jersey. Both of which no reasonable person would call the right wing. Both are so far left that actually compared to them the New York Times is an ultra right wing paper.
The Daily News is a "New Democrat" newspaper that is center-right on foreign policy, center-left on everything else.
BTW: You forgot to add the Staten Island Advance, and the Bergen Record (Nearly as bad as the NYT). People in Westchester tend to read the Times and the Post. "Snoozday" is as boring as Lawn Guyland (I delivered it as a child) and the Star Ledger is good for Paul Mulshine (my dad delivered it when it was the NEWARK Star Ledger).
OK, anyone know the newspaper situation in Connecticut?
My guess is he means the New York Sun, a tiny paper of about 18,000 circulation that's only been around for about a year. It's very tiny in size too - one section, 18 pages day or so - but quite nice, though sadly, as you'll see from the above link, it's completely walled off from the Web unless you want to pay $1.25/week, which is why you never see a single article from it posted here on FR and also why nobody knows it exists. (They do offer a free four-week trial, no strings attatched, so you may want to sign up just to check it out. It is indeed staunchly conservative.)
Matt Welch is merely revealing his own biases by writing such a line as "three local tabloids and two right-leaning dailies" without explaining what the other "right-leaning daily" was. As you can see from his resume, which I posted a link to a couple of responses above, he's one of several "A-List" webloggers trying to start a weekly Los Angeles newspaper. So he and a certain few other bloggers were just rapturously celebrating the launch of the New York Sun last year, because it gave their own little business plan some hope. I'm sure that in his own mind, the Sun is absolutely as much a Regular New York Daily as the Post or the Times. However, it just isn't true. Most New Yorkers don't know the Sun exists, and won't for a number of years, at the slow rate the Sun is growing.