The kid is a star, a Made For New York star, a shining All-Star amidst all the Mets darkness, and on Monday night, there he was at Progressive Stadium, with his proud parents in the stands, participating in the Home Run Derby he dreamed about watching it with them as a boy his Tampa home.

“It’s gonna be a lot of fun, just to watch him live a dream,” Alonso’s father, Peter, told the Post. “This is something that he has watched on TV, and obviously he likes hitting the ball and so forth, so it’s gonna be very surreal. We keep pinching ourselves. It’s a lot of fun to watch.”

The father recalls how his son was mesmerized by the Home Run Derby.

“He would just have this huge smile on his face, and when someone would do something out of ordinary or something amazing, he would just stand up and like, ‘Ahhhhhh.’ You know, be cheering for people, and he’d also be watching very intently how they swing a bat and things like that. He’d just take the whole thing in, from them enjoying the moment, to how they’re doing what they’re doing, which was amazing to him.”

Young Pete would say: “I want to do that some time.”

Long before baseballs and long before Citi Field and Progressive Stadium, there was the driveway or backyard of their home.

“We would do lemons, our neighbor had a lemon tree and orange tree, grapefruits,” Peter recalled. “You name it, he would just hit it (laugh). You watch ‘em explode, he’d spray juice all over whoever’s throwing to him whether it’s me or his mom, he’d crack up and get a kick out of it.”

Peter Alonso used to sometimes pitch little Wiffle golf balls to his son before games. “Because then when he saw a real ball, it looked like a grapefruit,” Peter said.

The baseball these days looks like a grapefruit to Pete Alonso. He has smashed 30 home runs, matching Aaron Judge’s 2017 total before the All-Star break, and is in the midst of a white-hot love affair with New York.

“The passion that the New Yorkers have, Peter shares that,” Peter said. “You see it on the field, and it’s real, and love for the game, it’s real. And how he interacts with people and so forth. You can see that it’s a great fit. He embraces the surroundings wherever he’s at.

“It fits like a glove for him, he loves it.”

No better city to love you either.

“It’s very close to my heart,” Peter Alonso said. “My mom and dad lived in Queens, and to see New York embrace Peter the way they have, that brings tears of joy to my eyes.”

Pete will represent the Mets at Tuesday night’s All-Star Game along with Jacob deGrom and Jeff McNeil. “I’m an extremely passionate player and I care,” he said in the Mets clubhouse last month, “so I feel like I identify a lot with the fans.

“Everyone here is extremely loyal and they care. They live and die with their teams, and that’s something that’s really special. In my opinion, it’s the capital of the world.”

If you think success will spoil Pete Alonso, think again.

“It’s not gonna alter him because he’s had a lot of minor successes in his life that felt like a major success or a milestone at that time, and he’s handled those just as well, and he hasn’t changed,” his mother, Michelle, told the Post. “He’s a good guy, he’s a good kid. I know that’s his mom talking here, but he was never a discipline problem, he was never a partier. He stays true to himself, and he’s a kind person, and he really is someone who looks out for other people and puts them before himself.”

As Pete Alonso will tell you: “I always remember who I am.”

Every day is Father’s Day now for Peter Alonso.

“You kinda pinch yourself, and you just have that feeling of elation and pride,” he said. “It’s been crazy, but it’s been crazy fun. He’s worked relentlessly in pursuit of his dreams. Peter’s never shied away from competition. To see him do it at this level, it’s just really neat. Am I surprised? Not really. Am I happy and elated? Yeah, because baseball’s a very humbling game.”

And every day is Mother’s Day now for Michelle Alonso.

“From spring training on, we’ve just been on this high, and it’s been indescribable,” Michelle said. “It’s just been a wild, fun ride.”

Peter and Michelle got together early in the day with Pete. They were on the 4 p.m. family bus to the Home Run Derby. “If they would have had it this morning, he wound have been ready to go,” Peter said. “It kinda reminds me of you’re waiting for Christmas morning, you’re so excited and you just kinda pop out of bed and you’re ready to go.

“He said he was gonna have fun.”

For Peter and Michelle Alonso as well. “Do you have children? …It’s just very difficult to describe,” Michelle said. Then she tried. “It’s your best day ever,” she said, “on steroids.”