Edward F. v. Karima G.

Order, Family Court, New York County (Helen C. Sturm, J.), entered on or about May 23, 2008, which, inter alia, awarded custody of the parties’ child to petitioner father, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The award was properly made on a record supporting findings that the mother is either unwilling or unable to facilitate a close relationship between the father and the child, and that the father, who has had temporary custody of the child since December 2005, when the child was 3V2 years old, has been appropriately addressing the child’s needs (see Eschbach v Eschbach, 56 NY2d 167,…