People v. Gramby

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), rendered May 13, 1996, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

*347Contrary to the defendant’s contention, where a witness is unable to recognize a defendant due to a lapse of time or change in appearance, the testimony of third persons “ ‘to whom the witness promptly declared his recognition on such occasion’ (CPL 60.25 [1] [b]), is allowable as evidence-in-chief of identification” (People v Bayron, 66 NY2d 77, 81; see…