LONG ISLAND, N.Y. _ Nicole Davniero, 43, of Levittown, remembers the day in 8th grade when she came home from school, turned on the Video Music Box TV channel, and was mesmerized by a boy band called New Kids on the Block singing "Please Don't Go Girl."
"From that moment on, I was hooked. I used to say, 'They'll be bigger than The Beatles.' My dad used to laugh at me," Davniero says. She plastered posters of her favorite band member, Joey McIntyre, all over her bedroom in Woodside, Queens. "I loved his blue eyes," she says.
Fast forward 30 years, and Davniero's middle child, Ilaria, 12, has become a New Kids groupie along with mom, with a poster of band member Donnie Wahlberg in her bedroom. Ilaria will be going with Davniero, a preschool teacher, to the New Kids on the Block Mixtape Tour concert at NYCB Live's Nassau Coliseum on June 30.
