It could be the way they name the streets.
Here in Calgary, for example, the city is divided into quadrants, NE, SE, SW, NW. Many avenues and streets are numbered from ‘1st’ up, beginning at a defined ‘centre’ of the city. In addition, many of the ‘communities’ (aka neighborhoods) within the suburbs, will have similar names within that ‘community’. In addition, many of this ‘community’ roads, may be named ‘Road’, ‘Street’, ‘Avenue’, ‘Boulevard’, ‘Circle’, ‘Close’, ‘Rise’, ‘Terrace’, ‘Bay’, etc.
There are likely plenty of cities that follow similar naming conventions, so it is easy to make a mistake in such neighborhoods, if you don’tknow it well.
There’s nothing unusual about similarly named streets in every city. I live on Zuni Trl S and across the intersection is Zuni Trl N. Of course, the person giving the address/directions to this boy could have been lazy and forgotten to include the full street designation. One of my pet peeves is people who do this, getting lazy on street names. So I stand corrected.