When streets in towns are given numbers such as 34th Street or 24th Avenue, which isn't always the case, navigation is extremely simple, with the additional advantage that it also becomes very easy to find house or building numbers, because at the start of each block the numbers start at a multiple of 100 based on the number of the intersecting street. For example, the houses with numbers between 3400 and 3499 lie between the 34th Street and 35th Street intersections. There may of course only be a few buildings on any one block.

When streets have names then you'll probably need a map, but the block system still helps.

There is however a trap for the unwary with the block system: beware of compass direction suffixes. For example 34th Street NW is a long way from 34th Street SE. 

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