Subsequent Events	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2020
Notes
Subsequent Events [Text Block]	16. Subsequent Events On August 3, 2020, Flushing Financial Corporation and Empire Bancorp, Inc. issued a joint press release announcing that they have each advised the other they will not exercise their respective rights to terminate the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 24, 2019, as amended, as would otherwise be permitted after July 31, 2020 under the agreement, and that they are discussing an extension of time to complete the proposed transaction.

The entire disclosure for significant events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued or the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Examples include: the sale of a capital stock issue, purchase of a business, settlement of litigation, catastrophic loss, significant foreign exchange rate changes, loans to insiders or affiliates, and transactions not in the ordinary course of business.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 855
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122774

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