In the makeshift halls of the former cinema, for example, there was no clear place for the stage.
As rumours of a storm spread, civilians were evacuated from city hall, which has become a makeshift dormitory for protesters since it was occupied a week ago, though hundreds later returned.
Children and women mill around a makeshift food hall, while old men stare vacantly.
Before long, other members of the senior class of 2007 began rolling into the makeshift dance hall in Manhattan.
"Everybody: Welcome to history," Mr. Reiner said The makeshift concert hall for Sir John was an elaborate tent, lined with curtains and backlit with soft lighting.
One evening, over a dinner of tamales and chocolate milk in the makeshift mess hall, a group of Nigerian commandos swapped stories about encounters with Boko Haram.
But back at a makeshift beer hall where team members and others relaxed and discussed the show, Mr. Chouillier looked happy and relieved.
Reporters hustled down boarded-up Liberty Street, past closed storefronts that include the place where a makeshift mess hall once fed recovery workers round the clock.
At one end of what has become the camp's main street, Mr. François has installed himself in a makeshift City Hall, with a dozen green wheelbarrows parked outside, the camp's garbage trucks.
From its start this makeshift floating hall, moored near the eastern foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, has hosted concerts of standard repertory solo and chamber works, with performances that are consistently admirable and often inspired.
