Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.
The father challenges the Family Court's award of custody of his two minor children to the maternal grandmother, who has cared for the children since 1994. We reject the father's contention that the award was not supported by a showing of "extraordinary circumstances" (see, Matter of Bennett v Jeffreys,
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