Seth Meyers's wife gave birth in their apartment lobby

( JTA ) — Seth Meyers’ newborn baby boy is named Axel Strahl Meyers. The Strahl in there might sound unusual, and that’s because it’s actually a surname — one that belonged to his wife’s grandparents, who were both Holocaust survivors. In a touching segment on his NBC show “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Monday night, he explained the dramatic circumstances of Axel’s birth. On their way to the hospital on Sunday, Meyers’ wife, Alexi Ashe, who is Jewish, went into labor in the lobby of their apartment building as an Uber waited outside. Their midwife advised her to stay put, and Axel was quickly born in the lobby. Members of the New York City Fire Department came and wound up cutting the umbilical cord. Meyers — who has a Jewish grandfather and is often mistaken to be Jewish himself (even at