Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that the evidence was legally insufficient to establish her guilt of forgery in the second degree and criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree is unpreserved for appellate review ( see, CPL 470.05; People v. Gray, 86 N.Y.2d 10; People v. Udzinski, 146 A.D.2d 245). In any event, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the People ( see, People v. Contes, 60 N.Y.2d 620), we find that it was legally sufficient to establish the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
The admission into evidence of photocopies of the forged instruments was not error as the People sufficiently established that the originals were missing, that a diligent search was made to recover the lost items, and that the copies were duplicates of the originals ( see, Schozer v. William Penn Life Ins. Co., 84 N.Y.2d 639).
Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Santucci and McGinity, JJ., concur.