In re John C.

Appeal from order, Family Court, New York County (Sheldon Rand, J.), entered on or about January 21, 1998, which, after a hearing, denied petitioner grandmother’s application for custody of the subject child, a neglected child who was then in foster care, and dismissed the petition with prejudice, unanimously dismissed, without costs.

Parental rights to the subject child having been terminated subsequent to the order on appeal, jurisdiction is lacking over a petition by a private person seeking “mere custody” of the child (Matter of Arnetta S. v Commissioner of Social Servs. of City of N. Y.,…