New York City

Lore & Background

In the film backstory, David Webb was brought to a secret recruitment center in New York City and tortured for days before he became Jason Bourne. In The Bourne Ultimatum, Bourne enters Vosen's office, takes classified Blackbriar documents from his safe and, after a car chase with the assassin Paz, meets Pamela Landy at a hospital at 415 East 71st Street. Confronted on the roof, he is shot at by Vosen and jumps into the East River. The Bourne Supremacy also ends in New York City, where Bourne phones Landy and learns his original name, David Webb.

Reader's Guide

In Robert Ludlum's novels, the CIA black ops arm Treadstone Seventy-One takes its name from a building on New York's Seventy-First Street, and the first novel ends with Carlos confronting Bourne in New York.

Did You Know?

• The Bourne Identity was first adapted for television in 1988, before the 2002 feature film starring Matt Damon.
• Jason Bourne is one of many aliases used by David Webb, a career Foreign Service Officer and specialist in Far Eastern affairs.
• In the film series, Bourne's father Richard Webb was a senior CIA analyst who created Treadstone.
• The Bourne Stuntacular, a tourist attraction, opened in 2020.