Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Putnam County (Miller, J.), rendered February 28, 2001, convicting him of reckless endangerment in the first degree and menacing in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the evidence adduced at trial was legally insufficient to support his conviction of reckless
It is well settled that the “cross-examiner is bound by the answers of [a] witness to questions concerning collateral matters inquired into solely to affect credibility” (People v Pavao, 59 NY2d 282, 288 [internal quotation marks omitted]). Thus, the trial court providently exercised its discretion in precluding rebuttal testimony on the collateral issue of the defendant’s whereabouts prior to the crime (see People v Aska, 91 NY2d 979). Santucci, J.P., Friedmann, H. Miller and Schmidt, JJ., concur.