Victims of Manhattan’s bicycle-path terror attack have filed notices to sue the city and state for more than $600 million — saying authorities were well aware that the area was vulnerable to a vehicle-ramming incident yet did nothing about it.
Two cyclists had already been killed along the West Side Highway bike path in separate crashes by drunken drivers, long before Sayfullo Saipov allegedly sped down it for a mile in a rental truck this past Halloween, killing eight.
The Department of Homeland Security also had issued a bulletin as far back as 2010 warning about the risk of terrorists using vehicles to wreak deadly havoc.
And even this past May, an alleged high driver jumped the curb and zoomed the wrong way up a Times Square sidewalk, killing a teenage tourist, while terror-related vehicle carnage rocked major cities around the world.
But it wasn’t until the day after the deadly Halloween horror — when ISIS-loving Uzbek native Saipov, 29, allegedly barreled down the path, hitting cyclists and pedestrians — that city transportation workers finally installed concrete barriers at more than four dozen intersections along the West Side Highway, according to court papers for 17 victims.
Authorities failed “to implement measures and precautions to prevent vehicles from intentionally entering the bicycle path despite the fact that it was foreseeable,” the victims’ lawyer, Howard Hershenhorn, wrote in the legal notices filed Friday.
They didn’t “take the necessary precautions based on appropriate engineering studies for this target location in the financial capital of the world.’’
During his rampage, Saipov allegedly steered his Home Depot rental truck onto the pathway between West Houston and Chambers streets. He was eventually shot and wounded by a cop at the scene and has pleaded not guilty to eight murder charges and other counts.
Three large white bollards now block that entrance.
Hershenhorn represents the families of seven of the eight fatalities, including the wives of five Argentinian tourists who were in the city to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their high-school graduation.
The men, all in their 40s, “suffered extreme conscious pain and suffering as a result of the injuries which resulted in” their deaths, the legal papers say. Their wives are suing for $30 million each.
The family of Anne-Laure Decadt, a 31-year-old Belgian mother of two young sons who was killed as she cycled along the path, is also suing for $30 million.
The mother of the only New Yorker among the dead, software engineer Nicholas Cleves, 23, filed another $30 million claim.
Family members of the eighth fatality, New Jersey resident Darren Drake, 32, brought a separate claim in November.
Those injured in the attack and their families also brought claims, including the parents of a little girl who suffered traumatic brain damage when Saipov smashed his truck into her school bus, and Marion Van Reeth, a Belgian who lost both legs.
A city Law Department spokesman said they will review the notices. A spokesman for the state did not immediately comment.