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Woman claims she was nearly raped on the Upper East Side

A 25-year-old woman told police she escaped being raped on an Upper East Side street last week — just blocks from where an 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted on Memorial Day.

Residents heard a woman screaming on May 22 at about 5 a.m. after a man grabbed her as she pulled out her keys in the doorway of her building on 90th Street and Lexington Avenue.

“Call 911, he”s attacking me!” the woman screamed, witnesses told DNAinfo.com.

A nearby building doorman heard the attack and helped the woman. The attacker fled.

Cops told DNAinfo that the suspect was a white male, adding that there is no evidence linking that attack with the one that occurred just two days ago.

During that attack, an 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted as she took her regular morning walk, police said.

The tattooed thug, in his mid-20s, grabbed the victim on the corner of Madison Avenue and 83rd Street and dragged her to a sunken stairwell at a brownstone half a block away.

The man, seen on surveillance video with his arm around the defenseless senior’s neck, forced her to perform oral sex before taking off with her jewelry.