Last week, it was the farmers market in Bloomfield. This week, the Carnegie Library in Lawrenceville. Next week, Councilman Patrick Dowd will take his remote office to Enrico's Tazza d'Oro coffeehouse in Highland Park.

At five locations five times a month, District 7's freshman representative is giving face time in the preferred haunts of his constituents, some of whom might never call or show up to complain on Grant Street.

Yesterday, at the library on Fisk Street, Tom Schosstall of Central Lawrenceville brought a sheaf of papers listing property abuses and suspected drug activities at two separate houses, "issues that date back to 2000," he said.

One Fisk Street house that he called an eyesore is owned by people who live near the Fox Chapel Country Club. He brought photographs of overgrown weeds and deteriorating features on the house.

"Is this fair to the people who live here?" he asked, thumbing through them.

Having an every-third-Wednesday remote council office near his home "is marvelous," Mr. Schosstall said. "I have called the police and council people since 2000 and nothing has been done. I'm excited about Patrick, though."

Few past members of council have maintained offices outside Grant Street, and none does now.

Mr. Dowd's "Council to Go" schedule has him in five of his neighborhoods three Thursdays and two Wednesdays each month for at least an hour each session.

The schedule is: Every third Thursday at 3:30 p.m. through November at the Bloomfield farmers market, Friendship Avenue and Cedarville Street (in inclement weather and after November he will be at Crazy Mocha coffeehouse at 4525 Liberty Ave.)

All others are at 2 p.m.: Every fourth Wednesday at Enrico's Tazza d'Oro, 1125 N. Highland Ave.; every third Wednesday at the Carnegie Library, 279 Fisk St.; every first Thursday at the Quiet Storm Coffeehouse and Restaurant, 5430 Penn Ave., and every second Thursday at the Polish Hill Civic Association, 3060 Brereton St.

"We don't know if this will work," said Mr. Dowd. "The times and locations may have to be altered" for the best effect, he said. "But we hope to show that not only can you do this at no cost, but you can meet constituents where they are.

"Being Downtown is good work, and I like that," he said. "But people have asked for more."

He credited Amy Enrico, the owner of Tazza d'Oro, with suggesting multiple venues.

She remembers saying, "Patrick, why don't you come here and have office hours. We hear a lot of creative ideas in the coffee shop, and if we want problems to be fixed, we need to participate in having some of the solutions. There's always tons of discussion about what people would do if they were in charge."

Mr. Dowd debuted his mobile office at Citiparks' farmers market the first day of its season last Thursday. In the parking lot in front of Immaculate Conception School, a paucity of vendors selling flowers and plants, chips and dips and lemonade attracted just enough of a crowd for Mr. Dowd to snag a few constituents.

One resident of District 8, David Engel of Shadyside, came in a motorized chair, with a list of dilemmas for the physically disabled: Curb cuts for wheelchairs are often wrongly placed, pay stations in some parking lots are too high or too hard to reach, and some new housing developments "are still not being inclusive."

Mr. Dowd and his aide, Sean Capperis, who carried and wrote in a notebook during each encounter, stood beside a fold-out card table with a sign "Council to Go" encased in Plexiglas.

Barb Kennedy brought several gripes from her home near the new Children's Hospital.

"Corday Way is filthy and dirty," she said. "It needs a cleanup."

Mr. Capperis wrote, "Corday Way, cleanup" and Mr. Dowd nodded slowly.

Construction at the hospital sometimes starts "at 4 and 5 in the morning, even on weekends," she said. "I don't know what you can do."

"We can do something about that," Mr. Dowd told her.

"And why do they have to have lights shining all night long?" on the site, she asked. "It's not very neighbor-friendly." She looked slightly daunted and said, "I know, I'm complaining. I'm just so glad to talk to somebody."