The family of a Turkish immigrant killed by a drunken driver claims three downtown Manhattan bars should be held responsible for his death.
Mahbub Ali, of Astoria, was allegedly “visibly intoxicated” when he visited Barcade Downtown, Harry’s on Wall Street and Klong, where he drank over a nearly six-hour stretch, the victim’s family said in a lawsuit.
But the watering holes kept pouring drinks anyway, until Ali’s blood alcohol content was .158 percent, nearly twice the legal limit for driving, according to court papers. 4
Ali, 28, then got behind the wheel fatally struck Abdulhekim Esiyok as he walked across Third Avenue near East 21st Street in Gramercy, police said.
Ali kept going — slamming into an 18-year-old cyclist, two pedestrians on the sidewalk and a parked van before