Opinion
October 3, 1995
Appeal from the Family Court, New York County (Leah Marks, J.).
The Family Court's factual findings are supported by a preponderance of the evidence that the children's best interests require permanent termination of respondent's parental rights and the transfer of custody and guardianship to petitioner in order to make the children available for adoption ( Matter of Celeste M., 180 A.D.2d 437, 438). Indeed, the record demonstrates that only after the children had been abandoned and the termination petitions had been filed did respondent make some strides toward rehabilitation, which, on balance, were insufficient ( see, Matter of Star Leslie W., 63 N.Y.2d 136, 148).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Rubin, Kupferman and Asch, JJ.