Donnie and Joey, still NKOTB after all these years.

Joining the ranks of resurrected Boston institutions such as the Red Sox, the Celtics and The Pixies, the newly reunited New Kids on the Block stopped by the Verizon Center last night on their tour promoting their reunion disc, The Block, which actually reached #2 on the Billboard album chart. Yes, Donnie, Danny, Joey, Jonathan and Jordan are quite a bit older than their mid-1980s heyday and their dance moves are a bit more robotic these days, but it didn’t matter to the capacity crowd in attendance last night. The set was a mix of old material and new, but it was the big hits like “You Got It (The Right Stuff)” that got the crowd on their feet. And judging by the number of vintage NKOTB shirts I saw, plenty of the audience was there the first time around.