Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: Twelve thousand people applied for tickets to his funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House at 39th Street and Broadway and the streets were jammed for blocks with a `` surging mass '' of his admirers .
Simplified: Twelve thousand people applied for tickets to his funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House at 39th Street and Broadway and the streets were jammed with people and traffic .