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Dunkin Donuts can stop worrying about a challenge to its Fourth Avenue supremacy: The plan to build a Starbucks in Gowanus is "as dead as the residents of Green-Wood Cemetery." If you've got $3.2 million to spare and a hankering for some blighted retail space, you'll be happy to know the whole plot of land is on sale. [Gowanus Lounge]