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ELI5: How the american road naming system works

I'm an Arab hopefully going to study in the US soon. For the life of me, I can't understand naming roads like 12th and Springsteen. Is that the name of 1 street. Is it the name of a block?
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12th and Springsteen would refer to where two roads cross (12th Street, and Springsteen St).

Every city has different ways of naming streets. In some cities, streets have haphazard names to do with history or other reasons, but a name is just that. Some cities use numbers, so if you know you're on 1st Street to get to 5th Street you'll need to walk by 2nd, 3rd and 4th first.

Some cities use xxx-Street for roads that go north-south and xxx-Avenue for roads that go east-west.

Street, road, avenue, boulevard and others are generally interchangeable words.

Buildings are numbered sequentially along streets. All the even numbers are on one side and the odd ones are on the opposite. If you're walking along and you see that you're at 100 John St but have a meeting at 265 John St, you know that your destination is on the other side of the road, and you need to walk in the direction in which the numbers are increasing.