A man has been arrested for assault after he stabbed an off-duty NYPD officer who stopped him from stealing items from a parked car in Lindenhurst.

Police say two off-duty NYPD officers observed a man getting into a parked vehicle in a driveway on 40th Street, off Buffalo Avenue, at approximately 1:05 a.m.

The man attempted to run away when the officers approached him. The officers caught up with the man several hundred yards down the block where he stabbed one of them in the left leg.

The off-duty officers held the man until First Precinct officers arrived and arrested him. The 28-year-old officer who was stabbed was transported to a hospital to be treated for a serious but non-life-threatening injury.

Detectives charged Royal Hooks, 27, of Manhattan, assault in the second degree.

Hooks is also being charged with petit larceny.