It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him upon his plea of guilty of robbery in the first degree (Penal Law § 160.15). Defendant contends that County Court erred in refusing to suppress his statements because the police investigator to whom he made the statements had an initial conversation with defendant to "establish a general rapport" before advising him of his Miranda rights. Defendant failed to preserve that contention for our review ( see People v Zeito, 302 AD2d 923, lv denied 99 NY2d 634 [2003]), and we decline to exercise our power to review it as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice ( see CPL 470.15 [a]). Defendant further contends that, if this Court reverses the judgment of conviction in his cither appeal pending before us ( People v Monroe, 39 AD3d 1279), then this judgment of conviction also should be reversed ( see People v Pichardo, 1 NY3d 126, 129). Because we are affirming that judgment ( Monroe, 39 AD3d 1279), there is no need to reverse this judgment of conviction.