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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001140361-24-001451
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240109

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FLUSHING FINANCIAL CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000923139
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	02 Finance
		IRS NUMBER:				113209278
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		220 RXR PLAZA
		CITY:			UNIONDALE
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11556
		BUSINESS PHONE:		718-961-5400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		220 RXR PLAZA
		CITY:			UNIONDALE
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			11556
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 2.15pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">January 8, 2024</div>
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    <div style="margin-left: 1.45pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">United States Securities and Exchange Commission</div>
    <div style="margin-left: 1.45pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Division of Corporation Finance</div>
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    <div style="margin-left: 1.45pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Washington, DC 20549</div>
    <div style="margin-left: 1.45pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Attention: Mr. Sarman Makhdoom and Mr. Robert Klein</div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Flushing Financial Corporation</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -34.55pt; margin-left: 54pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022</div>
    <div style="text-indent: -34.55pt; margin-left: 54pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2023</div>
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    <div>Dear Mr. Makhdoom and Mr. Klein:</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 34.55pt; margin-left: 1.45pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On behalf of Flushing Financial Corporation (the &#8220;Company,&#8221; &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;us,&#8221; or &#8220;our&#8221;), set forth
      below are our responses to the comments of the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the above-referenced filings set forth in the Staff&#8217;s letter dated December 6, 2023, For your convenience, we have repeated the comments set
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Lending Activities, page 3</u></div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We note the tabular disclosure on page 4 detailing the composition of your gross loan portfolio, which includes commercial real estate (&#8220;CRE&#8221;).&#160; Given the significance
              of CRE in your total loan portfolio, please revise your disclosures, in future filings, to further disaggregate the composition of your CRE loan portfolio by separately presenting owner and non-owner occupied, by borrower type (e.g., by
              office, hotel, multifamily, etc.), geographic concentrations and other characteristics (e.g., current weighted average and/or range of loan-to-value ratios, occupancy rates, etc.) material to an investor&#8217;s understanding of your CRE loan
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Flushing Financial Corporation Response</u></div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for the comment.&#160; We will incorporate your comment into future filings beginning with the December 31, 2023 Form 10-K.</div>
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      <div style="text-align: right;">220 RXR Plaza</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Form 10-Q for the Quarterly Period Ended September 30, 2023</u></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Management&#8217;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations</u></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Liabilities, page 56</u></div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We note that your brokered deposits totaled $1,102.6 million at September 30, 2023, representing an increase of $246.3 million from $856.3 million at December 31,
              2022.&#160; In future filings, please identify which lines in your deposits table include your brokered deposits.&#160; In addition, include a more fulsome discussion of factors driving change in these brokered deposits as well as in your uninsured
              deposits, along with an enhanced discussion of the effects such deposit changes have on the bank&#8217;s liquidity and funding costs.&#160; Further, expand your disclosures to discuss the impacts, if any, that brokered deposits have had on your interest
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.3pt; margin-left: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for the comment.&#160; We will incorporate your comment into future filings beginning with
      the December 31, 2023 Form 10-K.</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: -0.7pt; margin-left: 1.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Income Simulation Analysis, page 58</u></div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We note your disclosure stating that management provides a report, which quantifies the potential changes in net interest income under various scenarios, for review by
              the Asset-Liability Investment Committee (&#8220;ALCO&#8221;) of the Board of Directors, Please expand your disclosure in future filings, to discuss the different ways the ALCO committee manages interest rate risk, such as any management or governance
              controls, policy limits, the information the Committee gains from the analysis, how it is used and any limitations of the output from the approach.&#160; In addition, include a more fulsome discussion of the changes in the outputs in the analysis
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.3pt; margin-left: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for the comment.&#160; We will incorporate your comment into future filings beginning with
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We note the disclosure on page 58 that the computation of prospective effects of hypothetical interest rate changes are based on assumptions.&#160; Please revise your
              disclosures in future filings to fully describe and define the various identified assumptions, whether you use proprietary or third-party data, how the data are used in your modeling and any unique facts and circumstances about them, such as
              how they have or may respond to unknown facts and circumstances, such as exogenous events.&#160; Additionally, please disclose changes in any assumptions used for any comparative period, including changes to the data source used or significant
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    <div style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 4.3pt; margin-left: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thank you for the comment.&#160; We will incorporate your comment into future filings beginning with
      the December 31, 2023 Form 10-K.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have additional questions or comments on the foregoing, please contact me by phone at 516.209.3622 or email
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    <div style="margin-right: 4.15pt; margin-left: 0.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sincerely,</div>
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