Note 1 - The Company (Details) (USD $)	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Number of Operating Segments	1
Number of Mortgage Investments	3
Limited Liability Company (LLC) or Limited Partnership (LP), Members or Limited Partners, Ownership Interest	9.32%
Gyrodyne Special Distribution LLC [Member] \| Consolidation, Eliminations [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate (in Dollars)	$ 13,370,000
Gyrodyne Special Distribution LLC [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Percentage of Real Estate Owned	100.00%
Number of Real Estate Properties	4
Investment Interest Rate	5.00%
Gyrodyne Special Distribution LLC [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Variable Interest Entity, Financial or Other Support, Amount (in Dollars)	2,500,000
Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Variable Interest Entity, Financial or Other Support, Amount (in Dollars)	$ 2,500,000
Medical office park [Member] \| Controlled by Parent Company [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties	2
Number of Units in Real Estate Property	10
Area of Real Estate Property	131,000
Medical office park [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Number of Units in Real Estate Property	14
Multi-Tenant Industrial Park [Member] \| Controlled by Parent Company [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Area of Real Estate Property	130,000
Controlled by Parent Company [Member] \| St. James, New York [Member]
Note 1 - The Company (Details) [Line Items]
Area of Real Estate Property	68

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The number of mortgages the company is invested in.

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The percentage of real estate owned by an entity.

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The interest rate for investments that have an interest rate. For fixed rate investments, this indicates the fixed interest rate. If the investment has a variable interest rate, the rate stated here may be the rate that is currently relevant. In this case the "Investment, Interest Rate is Current Rate for Variable Rate Investment Flag", "Investment, Interest Rate is Discount Rate at Purchase Flag", "Investment, Interest Rate Reflects Current Yield Flag" should be used. If one of these flags are not appropriate to explain the interest rate that is indicated, then a new flag should be added or an explanation should be included in "Investment, Additional Information".

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-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Article 12

-Section 12

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Area of a real estate property.

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The number of units or percentage investment held by one or more members or limited partners of the LLC or LP.

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-Publisher FASB

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-Topic 272

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 3

-Subparagraph (b)

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Total carrying amount of mortgage loans as of the balance sheet date.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 205

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

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-SubTopic 310

-Section S99

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date.

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The number of units in a real estate property owned as of the balance sheet date.

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The amount of financial or other support the reporting entity has provided (explicitly or implicitly) to the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) that it was not previously contractually required to provide or that the reporting entity intends to provide, including, for example, situations in which the reporting entity assisted the VIE in obtaining another type of support.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 5A

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