Urban Explorers: Telefunken

Along the train tracks in West Sayville lie the remnants of a World War I German Telecommunications Station. Telefunken built the first antenna capable of transmitting from America to Europe. However a radio enthusiast intercepted the Zimmerman telegraph being sent from Germany to West Sayville in order to be relayed to Mexico. This brought the Americans roaring in and ever since the grounds Telefunken owned were US run. There are no buildings or towers left, but you can still find plenty to remind you that this place was an active base at one time.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• urban
• explorers
• telefunken
• german
• wireless
• transmission
• station
• abandoned
• military
• west
• sayville

[turkey2teriyaki]

how many cement towers did u guys find cause me and my friends only found 2

[TheZenTurtle]

All 3.

[rob64ME]

i wAS THERE 2 DAY

[TheZenTurtle]

Hope you had fun.

[darrohns]

I used go there alot. There were atleast 100 barrels of hazardous waste. (pcp) That was the early 90's. All the buildings were there and there were all types of actively working cpu units. They were large and had all kinds of warnings on them. It was a scary and erie place. There all kinds of paperwork for government orders and stufflike that. It was defentily cool and creepy. Good Stuff.

[TheZenTurtle]

I wish I had been able to see it back then.

[nGxModder]

there is a hobo living under the bush now by were the big tower is and he freaked us out cuz he was just laying there

[Jaalto]

When it was an FAA base, I lived there (back in the mid '60s). It's where my Father worked. There were two residential houses (one of which was split into a two family unit). The section from the main building complex was mowed south to the railroad tracks. Long since grown in with scrub pine. Thanks for the memories!

[eskimokissesyay]

where in sayville is this, if you were driving?

[pressuretreated2003]

We used to hang out in this place back in the mid 80's to early 90's. One of the windows was broken so we had to go in and check it out. Their were huge computers inside with a bunch of different dials and knobs. The place was completely operational then. One of my old friends went through and turned just about every dial in the place. Shortly after that they had put steel roll up window protectors. Their were creepy old steel stairs inside going up to the second floor. It was pretty spooky.

[spinach1999]

This site was originally built by Nichola Tesla.

[villain42013]

just so you all know, at 1:19 behind that tower was the second place i ever had sex oh man good times back in the day lots of drinking there and we still chill back there

[turkey2teriyaki]

where is the one that was untapped by grafiti and where is the underground house thingy? while we were searching through the woods we found this old hobbos tent full of porn and old beer cans its was pretty funny cause we thought we were gonna find a dead body

[ericjen123]

i used to go in telefunken alot from like 85-95..all the buildings were still up aswell as the tower...funny thing is i was at alot of the places u guys explore... I used to live next door to the west sayville green house when that was up and running. See u guys were also in the lamplighter , I've had dinner in there years ago. Also see u guys were in the Patchogue UA movies.. Im making myself sound old but I used to goto the drive in (late 70's)there b4 they even build the UA multi plex