A beautiful NYU student was found dead from an apparent suicide Tuesday in a swanky Bryant Park Hotel, sources said.
Rowen Altenburger, 18, of Short Hills, NJ, was discovered about 12:45 p.m. after her mother used a smartphone app to track her down to the hotel on West 40th Street, law enforcement sources said.
The troubled teen was found with a plastic bag over her head, a source said.
A suicide note was sealed and addressed to her mother, but an apparent draft of the note was also in the room and said the young woman was sorry, a source said.
“It can be easy to lose yourself. Not to mention lots of time,” Altenburger wrote on her website.
Altenburger posted images of her sometimes-dark paintings— titled “Live fast and Die Young” and “I’m not Real” — on the art-sharing website Cosmofunnel.com.
One of her paintings features a female’s face in covered in what appears to be blood; another shows a skeleton.
Altenburger’s mother used the GPS app Tuesday morning, which tracked her down to Bryant Park, a source said.
The mother then called different locations near the park and eventually phoned the Bryant Park Hotel where staff said that her daughter was staying.
On Tuesday afternoon, a police vehicle pulled up to the hotel with three family members, who tearfully declined comment.
NYU has been plagued by suicides in recent years.
The school set up a “suicide-prevention” wall in its library atrium — the site of at least three suicides in recent years — in 2012.
An NYU spokesman didn’t return calls by press time.