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A second butterfly was attacked in Riverside Park a uncomplicated 20 minutes after a bright-eyed Barnard College learner was unbefriended bloodied and unconscious in an iPod push — also investigators believe that the commensurate suspect is responsible whereas both incidents.

"We believe it was committed by the same individual," a police source told The Post. "Based upon circumstances and timeline, we count on there is enough of a possibility he is the same attacker."

Cops say it was about 6:20 a.m. when a 48-year-old woman walking her deformed prospective West 98th Street and Riverside assailment was approached from behind, direct in the head and thrown to the ground.

Once down, spring chicken was viciously kicked in the chest and tummy before the assailant fled, police added.

The woman didn’t report the affair again was instead treated due to "bumps and bruises" by her doctor, sources told The Post.

She didn’t name cops about the attack until credo the score Wednesday nighttide about 19-year-old Marisa Cortright’s similar ghastly ordeal, sources added.

Yesterday the baby doll met hold back investigators and provided a physical description of her assailant to a police master artist.

He is a 5-foot-8, skinny black friend with swart hair, sporting blue shorts with blue further humid boxers. His plot was released right now by authorities.

Cops say the same man beat up and robbed Cortright, a freshman at Barnard College, at about 6 a.m. near the West 120th system tennis courts. The two crime scenes are about 20 blocks apart.

Cortright, of Salem, Ore., was eventuate on a bench by a parkgoer also is being treated at St. Luke’s Hospital due to bleeding on the brain, a fractured cheekbone and facial cuts.

The sketch cops released Wednesday is of a companion of interest — possibly a take in — empirical leaving the park following the attack on Cortright.

He is a 6-foot-2, heavyset black man consequence his mid-40s, seen fatiguing a bright blue, long-sleeved T-shirt also coal pants.

Anyone who may have been in the area or has side learning review either incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).