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#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater

The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers

Jan 30, 202601:04:40Society & Culture

On August 6, 1930, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on West 45th Street and vanished without a trace. For 27 days, nobody reported him missing—not his wife waiting in Maine, not his Tammany H...

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#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater is an episode from The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers. On August 6, 1930, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater stepped into a taxi on West 45th Street and vanished without a trac...

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Published Jan 30, 2026, 01:04:40 long, audio available.