The cats sleep in makeshift cubicles made of plastic packing containers nestled in cargo carts that once carried transcontinental luggage but have been long retired from Kennedy's runways.
For eight decades that is how countless millions of Russians have entered the world, lived and died: in makeshift cubicles, sometimes split into two rooms by a false wall, a cupboard or a bedspread hung from a rope, a supposed minimum of 65 square feet per person.
It is 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning and we have simply driven into the Jungle, past men lining up for showers in the makeshift chipboard cubicles, and wooden-frame shops selling small pyramids of Nido, Fanta, and fruit.
It is 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning and we have simply driven into the Jungle, past men queuing for showers in the makeshift chipboard cubicles, and wooden-frame shops selling small pyramids of Nido, Fanta and fruit.
Option two is that you defiantly ignore your coworker, silently creep on into the cubicle with your makeshift bidet, do your business, and then refrain from speaking to anyone for the remainder of the day.
Do they need to fold our cubicle walls into a makeshift ping-pong table?
A few years ago the art historian Horace Brockington turned a suite of office cubicles assigned to Iradac into a makeshift exhibition space and initiated an ambitious program that has included surveys of the work of African-American architects, of abstract painting by black artists, and of new art from the Dominican Republic.
In the makeshift trading room, pages of white paper were taped to the cubicle dividers, identifying different trading desks for corporate, mortgage and government bonds.
The lineup remains makeshift.
