A great-grandmother who suffered a massive head injury when she was shoved unprovoked face-first into the sidewalk near Union Square Park is slowly recovering - while the stranger accused of attacking her has been released on bail.

The victim is now able to communicate with her family after spending two week in a medically-induced coma in the intensive care unit following the June 1 Manhattan attack.

 As far as we know, she's had no brain damage,  said the victim's 68-year-old son-in-law.  This is an 85-year-old woman. She's really had a miraculous recovery considering the damage. 

The victim made it through surgery that removed half her skull to relieve pressure on her brain, relatives said.

 She has a very long way to go,  her 59-year-old daughter said.  She's not up and walking and talking. She's still in the hospital. We're hoping (she'll be released) in the next couple of days, but only to a rehab facility. That could be a month (there), that could be three months. 

Word of the victim's tentative recovery comes as the young woman accused of attacking her, Paris Valentine, has been released from Rikers Island after making bail.

Valentine, 29, is facing assault charges for the unprovoked attack. She was arrested moments after the shoving and initially ordered held without bail when she was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court. But a judge at a later hearing set bail at $10,000.

Valentine was released after making bail on June 11, public records show.

The victim, a self-made woman who began her own company out of her garage when in her 40s, was born in Brooklyn but eventually moved to the suburbs to raise her family.

But she loved New York so much she moved back to the city once her kids were grown and now lives near Union Square. She has two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

As she slowly recovers at Bellevue Hospital, she has been both lucid and confused in equal measure, her son-in-law said. One of her biggest bouts of confusion comes when her family tries to explain that she was the victim of a random attack.

 Why would someone do that to me?  she asks, according t

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