The verdict was based on legally sufficient evidence. Defendant engaged in conduct that created the obvious danger of a major gas explosion in an occupied apartment building. The court properly found that this conduct satisfied the elements of first-degree reckless endangerment ( see Penal Law § 120.25; People v. Register, 60 NY2d 270). Reckless endangerment does not require a showing of extreme wickedness or abject moral deficiency on the part of the perpetrator ( see e.g. People v. Narimanbekov, 258 AD2d 417).