¶ The events giving rise to the conviction were that the defendant grabbed the victim around the neck, on a stairway in a Bronx apartment building, knocking her to the ground, punching her in the face and threatening her with death as he grabbed her bag and fled. ¶ The assault in the second degree conviction must be vacated as necessarily encompassed in the concurrent crime of robbery in the second degree (People v Thompson,
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