Janet E. Sabel, The Legal Aid Society, New York (Allen Fallek of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York (Diana Wang of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Anthony J. Ferrara, J.), rendered September 28, 2017, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of burglary in the first degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 71/2 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to preserve his argument that the court interfered with his relationship with his trial counsel by making an inappropriate inquiry into defendant's decision not to testify (see People v Narayan, 54 NY2d 106, 112 [1981]), and we decline to review it in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we find that the court providently exercised its discretion in inquiring into whether defendant understood that he had the personal right to testify, a right that he ultimately chose to exercise. The court's permissible inquiry was based on, among other things, defendant's statements that he had not had enough time to decide whether to testify, and his uncertainty over whether he agreed with defense counsel's recommendation that he not do so.

We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence. Concur—Gische, J.P., Oing, Singh, Mendez, JJ.