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Tuesday's operation, launched at about 01:00 (0600 GMT), swept most of the demonstrators out within an hour.
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Paul Browne, NYPD: ''It was done in a very even-handed and restrained way"
As a helicopter circled above, clean-up crews worked through the night clearing away piles of rubbish.
Dozens attempted to resist arrest by linking arms or chaining themselves together with bicycle locks.
"I was bleeding profusely. They shoved a lot of people's faces into the ground," protester Max Luisdaniel Santos, 31, told the Associated Press news agency.
Demonstrators gathered around the park demanding to be let back in, but Mr Bloomberg said the park would stay shut until the court order was clarified. A ring of police barricades remained in place.
Protesters also assembled at nearby Foley Square, and posted updates from there to a new Twitter account.
Some also tried to occupy Duarte Square, but were thwarted by police, who made several arrests.
Small-business owners had complained about the noise and unsanitary conditions in Zuccotti Park, accusing demonstrators of messing up their toilet facilities and driving away customers.
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