Opinion
October 29, 1998
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Leah Marks, J.).
Ample evidence supports the findings that the apartment in which the one-year old child was living was unsanitary and unsafe, with garbage and nonworking appliances strewn about, a nonworking, moldy refrigerator, no refrigerated food, no water, many cats, including a dead one, and a two and a half foot-long machete on the floor behind a door within reach of the child who was crawling around the apartment — all presenting a threat of imminent danger to the child's physical and emotional well being. Given such conditions, the court should not "`await broken bone or shattered psyche'" ( Matter of Cruz, 121 A.D.2d 901, 903; Family Ct. Act § 1012 [f] [i]).
Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Nardelli, Mazzarelli, Andrias and Saxe, JJ.