At the time, Tompkins Square Park, across the street, was teeming with homeless people living in makeshift shacks.
Now, the term refers to all manner of knock-off, substandard or improvised goods, such as these makeshift vehicles.
She sat mutely on my makeshift desk and nibbled at a chocolate but her eyes turned on me several times as if she wanted to speak.
Television footage of the ensuing "big freeze" showed groups of people huddled in swathes of blankets gathering round makeshift wood-fired stoves to keep warm. It looked like fun - of a sort.
They made a makeshift table from boxes.
The dining couch was a makeshift, poor and patched but the best they had.
As of January 13, about 46,000 pieces of galvanized steel sheet have been sent to those areas to build makeshift shelters.
A series of dikes and makeshift barricades designed to protect Bangkok from the full brunt of the floods appeared to be holding over the weekend, but experts warned the city isn't out of danger yet.
The makeshift tent answered their purpose.
In this Kenyan slum, his photographs were printed on waterproof vinyl and doubled up as makeshift roofs.
After helping a mother and her infant off a makeshift raft, an exhausted Magallanes was lost in the water, his body recovered the next day.
He is accused of eating part of the lung raw and then frying the rest of it with some Onions on a makeshift cooker in the cell in the Rouen prison.
Frilly underwear is draped in a corner and hair clips hold back makeshift privacy curtains on the bunks.
They squatted side by side on the dirt, a crowd of village women holding sari cloth around them as a makeshift curtain, and poured soapy water from a metal pan over their heads.
Shops, businesses and government offices in Bangkok cower behind makeshift concrete parapets and piles of sandbags.
But while the teaching can occur in makeshift Spaces, what is important, she added, is to ensure that the education that is being delivered is of a high quality.
In this Kenyan slum, his photographs were printed on waterproof vinyl and doubled up as makeshift roofs. Projects such as these often require the assistance of local volunteers.
The makeshift altar was promptly surrounded by a ring of police buses and later destroyed by conservative groups.
In different parts of the small country vigilante groups have set up roadblocks and taken up makeshift arms, often on a sectarian basis.
Many of the 400 or so Darfuris there now have been living in makeshift tents.
Phil used a makeshift fishing pole and caught two fish.
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