By 1974 most underground newspapers in the U.S. had ceased publication. Although many of the members of the UPS and its successors were founded when the legendary urban underground papers were already dead or dying, their influence resonated through the 1970s and beyond, in scores of eclectic papers founded in small towns and suburbs, such as Long Island's "Moniebogue Press" and "Suffolk StreetPapers", offering general audiences alternative perspectives on local news and culture, and in publications specializing in Native American politics (such as "Akwesasne Notes"), peace, ecology, etc.