Cops yesterday busted 17 Occupy Wall Street protesters after a horde of the rowdy demonstrators took over a pavilion at the World Financial Center.
About 200 protesters packed the Winter Garden atrium — a lower-Manhattan building owned by the same entity that manages the ralliers’ usual nearby digs, Zuccotti Park — shortly after 10 a.m., banging drums and chanting anti-capitalist slogans.
Earlier, the protesters had gathered at Zuccotti Park and then headed in two directions.
Some went to the Goldman Sachs headquarters on West Street to protest the company’s “exploitation” of low-wage transportation and shipping workers.
“Goldman Sachs is the vampire squid who sucks the blood of workers,” the protesters — some of whom were dressed in squid costumes — said in a statement.
Other protesters headed south to the World Financial Center, where they briefly took over the marble-floored, Christmas-decorated Winter Garden until cops were called in to move them out.
Ten men and seven women were arrested.
Cops said charges are pending but will likely include criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.
Protesters had another confrontation later at Zuccotti Park, this time with a business owner who said he was trying to help people find jobs.
John Tobacco said he became so frustrated with the Occupy Wall Street protests that he started a movement of his own — Occupy a Desk.
The technology-company owner said he decided to solicit job listings from various companies and was collecting résumés during a makeshift job fair in the park — until the occupiers shut him down.
“Some protesters brought in a whole slew of people that started disrupting the fair,” said Tobacco, who collected about 100 résumés for companies he said were hiring.