New York ? The building superintendent who caught an infant boy thrown out of a burning third-floor apartment in the Bronx said Friday that “it’s a beautiful feeling” to know he helped save the baby’s life.

Felix Vasquez, a longtime Housing Authority supervisor who has been a catcher on the authority’s softball team, also gave 1-month-old Eric Guzman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after the child’s mother threw the baby from the apartment on Wednesday.

Firefighters rescued the mother, Tracinda Foxe, 30, from the smoke-filled apartment.

Mother and baby were treated at a local hospital and released.

“It was a huge stroke of luck, perhaps divine providence, that Felix was standing there,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said while presenting him with a bronze medallion symbolizing the city’s highest award for civic achievement.

While calling Vasquez “a real-life hero with hands of gold,” Bloomberg joked that he has kissed babies but never caught any.