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We are original owners and also have no luck ever getting reservations, even 9 months in advance. We only book on days they tell us it's available otherwise, we lose our days. I know, I'm singing to the choir. We were there this past weekend (because who wants to be there in mid January?!) and had an incident with the glass dining table. It wasn't secured to the base in any way and when I pushed back my chair to get up, the glass top slid off and hit the floor, breaking clean in half. It was chipped before we got there. I wonder how that happened. Someone came up, asked if anyone was hurt, cleaned it up put a "new" chipped glass top on, not secured, and left. No incident report, no discussion about responsibility. Next morning, receive a statement under the door that our credit card on file was charged $850 for a new glass top. Complained while we were there, weekend people said they can't take it off, talk to General Manager on Monday. Had a heated discussion with him, Sal Reale, about how they "don't have budget for breakage" and it's not covered under our 2k maintenance fee. Which, by the way, we "should be grateful it's not 10k given this is NYC and if they had to pay for everything that ever broke." He said he "got a deal from the glass distributer and would only charge us $650." I'm not interested in giving him anything and told him so. Nothing was solved over the phone. I disputed the charge on my credit card, filled out a report with the BBB (that they received today, now we're waiting for a response) and wrote a letter to the Attorney General. How can I be sure to be involved in your class action suit? Any info you can give is much appreciated, Ralph and Debbie Flamini with co owner Elena Cahill