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SCOUT· 28%1h 04m·2026-01-30·History#478 The Disappearance of Judge Crater
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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 Hall cronies, not the courts. When the story finally broke, it became the most famous missing…
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