Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Vincent A. Vitale, J.), rendered March 20, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of probation of 3 years and a fine of $250, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s challenges to various comments made by the prosecutor during summation are unpreserved for review as a matter of law either because defense counsel made only general, unelaborated objections to the comments in a question (People v Balls, 69 NY2d 641), or, where objections were made and sustained, did not request curative instructions (People v Lewis, 175 AD2d 885, lv denied 79 NY2d 829). In any event, were we to review in the interest of justice, we would find that the majority of the prosecutor’s comments constituted fair comment on the evidence and proper response to arguments made by defense counsel during summation (supra), or that the court’s prompt intervention and instructions prevented any prejudice. Any potential prejudice caused by the prosecutor’s brief attempt to define circumstantial evidence was dissipated by the prefatory comment that the court would be instructing the jury thereon (People v Hart, 176