Name That Neighborhood: Gowanus? Park Slope? G-Slope?

what is wrong with this picture, originally uploaded by e-liz.

Gowanus Lounge is tempted to say that Gowanus is a state of mind, given the sometimes fluid nature of its borders and the fact that establishments that are clearly in the nabe sometimes call themselves "Park Slope." Photographer Elizabeth Weinberg, who posts ast e-liz on flicker, documents this perfect new example of neighborhood identity crisis on the southwest corner of Butler Street and Fourth Avenue. The establishment calls itself the "Deli on the Slope," even though it is in Gowanus.

She writes:

I consider the divider between Park Slope and Gowanus to be Fourth Avenue, with residences on the east (mine included) in "Park Slope" and everything to the west in "Gowanus"...All signs point to the edging out of Gowanus as we know it, and to the spreading of Park Slope all the way out to the canal and beyond. Carroll Slope anyone? Surprised they didn't name this place Deli in the G-Slope.

Ah, yes, the "spreading of Park Slope." It sounds like something you see a dermatologist about.

When Leviev Boymelgreen's Gowanus Village reemerges as the Village in the Slope or West Slope Village, or when the Gowanus Whole Foods is built and calls itself Park Slope Whole Foods, then we will know that the fight to keep Gowanus as Gowanus is truly lost.