Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Flushing Financial Corporation (the "Company") (Nasdaq-GS: FFIC), the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB (the "Bank"), announced on September 15, 2009 the commencement of a public offering of approximately $80 million of its common stock. The Company expects to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes and to repurchase the 70,000 shares of the Company's Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock Series B ("Preferred Stock"), and the warrant ("Warrant") to purchase up to 751,611 shares of the Company's common stock, issued to the U.S. Department of the Treasury ("Treasury") as part of the TARP Capital Purchase Program. There can be no assurance that the Treasury will approve the Company's applications to repurchase the Preferred Stock or the Warrant, or that an acceptable price for repurchasing the Warrant can be agreed upon.

Item 9.01(d). Exhibits

99.1. Press release of Flushing Financial Corporation, dated September 15, 2009.

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